November2008Meeting

Speaker: gabrielle

Topic: A Sitter for Cisco Syslogs

Syslog is a handy troubleshooting tool, but only if you actually read what's logged. I wrote a Cisco syslog parser & reporter as part of our network fault-management system. We'll go over:

• network management basics
• why we needed this specific tool
• why I created my own tool from scratch instead of using an off-the-shelf solution
• how I did it & what the results were, and
• what I'm going to do next.

You don't need to be a Cisco engineer or even know much Perl to get something out of this talk.

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