monitor on a solaris machine

[e.group]

Hi all,
a) is there an application on the Solaris platform which can monitor events
and applications on the Solaris? (something like an even viewer).
b) where can I find logs related to the operation system?

Thanks

[Giovanni]

Hi,

> a) is there an application on the Solaris platform which can monitor events
> and applications on the Solaris? (something like an even viewer).

Well, in order to do events monitoring by default Solaris provides you with
the Audit daemon: you should check at sun.com for documentation on how to
configure it.

> b) where can I find logs related to the operation system?

Logs could be found in /var/log/ (i.e. syslog) and /var/adm/ (i.e. messages).

Hope this helps

--
Giovanni Casano

[M. Thomas]

>

> > a) is there an application on the Solaris platform which can monitor events
> > and applications on the Solaris? (something like an even viewer).

>

Take a look at the man page for syslog. It is more like the event
monitor of windows. It can be configured to provide very verbose
output. It can also be configured to dump these messages into
specific folders. Be prepared to clean out the folders on a frequent
basis, perhaps a cron job will need to run to clear them out.

[scriptOmatic]

"e.group" wrote:

>
> Hi all,
> a) is there an application on the Solaris platform which can monitor events
> and applications on the Solaris? (something like an even viewer).
> b) where can I find logs related to the operation system?
>
> Thanks

FYI: take a look at the source code for OSM, particulariy look at
"logger.c"
which shows usage of UNIX syslog(), HTH and sorry of the obvious
plug!

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[url]http://ftp.opensysmon.com[/url] is a shell script archive site with an
open source system monitoring and network monitoring software package.
Many platforms are supplied already compiled.