Vendor Pack for Syslog Watcher contains information about 14000+ messages produced by devices of such vendors as Cisco Systems, Inc., Juniper Networks, Inc., Fortinet, Inc.
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Vendor Pack for Syslog Watcher
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Version 1.5.1
(April 1, 2008)
Vendor Pack is additional pack for Syslog Watcher. It is a knowledge base consisting of thousands messages that can be generated by network devices from major vendors. Almost every known message has a detailed explanation of its meaning and recommendations for response actions to the message.
Features
- Getting extra information from the message's content
- Displaying explanation of the message meaning
- Displaying recommended response action
- Support of vendor-specific messages formats
Vendor Pack Includes
1) Cisco Systems, Inc.
- Cisco IOS Software - 9823 messages
- Cisco Catalyst Switches (CatOS) - 1291 messages
- Cisco Security Appliances (PIX/ASA) - 1412 messages
2) Juniper Networks, Inc.
- JUNOS Internet Software - 1540 messages
3) Fortinet, Inc.
- FortiGate with FortiOS - 225 messages
(The list of vendors will be expanded)
The new version (1.5.1) contains fixes allowing to install VendorPack for Syslog Watcher on Windows Server 2008.
Why Use Vendor Pack for Syslog Watcher?
No matter what system you use to collect syslog messages, store them, and analyze them effectively, two main problems exist.
The first is that, although syslog messages format is standardized, often vendors deviate from the standard and change format. As a result of this, recognition of message parts becomes more difficult. They can also insert additional information that would better be identified and analyzed in the proper way.
The second problem is that messages are usually short and it is often quite difficult to understand what they mean, i.e., how to interpret them and how to respond to the received message.
To solve these two problems we developed a special add-on for our syslog server called Syslog Watcher Vendor Pack. Vendor Pack can be integrated into any edition of Syslog Watcher. It contains a knowledge base of syslog messages of various vendors. In other words, it knows about vendor-specific formats and contains message patterns. When the add-on is activated, this allows analyzing the received messages more fully (in case they come from the supported device) and getting additional information from them.
Also there is a detailed explanation of the message meaning for almost every message that is in the vendor pack database. In addition to displaying explanations, Vendor Pack offers recommendations on how to react to the received messages, if they are necessary and applicable.
Thus, by using Syslog Watcher with Vendor Pack you can effectively gather and analyze network events, as well as understand their meaning and react to them properly.
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