SL4NT is an application which implements a syslog daemon. The purpose of a syslog daemon is to listen for incoming syslog messages from syslog senders - like Unix hosts, routers, firewalls, etc. - and then decode and process the messages for logging and notification purposes.

Features:

• Implemented as a multithreaded service
• Support for asynchronous message processing
• Receiver engine supports listening on multiple UDP/TCP ports
• Rule based message processing
• Support for trigger threshold settings
• Supported rule conditions:
  • Facility
  • Priority
  • Source IP-address
  • Destination IP-address/port
  • Receive time
  • Substring search in message text/Regular Expression matching
  • Custom evaluator object (implemented as an ActiveX object)
• Supported rule actions:
  • Log message to Windows NT Event Log (Application, Security, System)
  • Log message to log file
  • Run program
  • Send network alert
  • Send email (SMTP) message (MIME 1.0 compliant)
  • Forward syslog message to another syslog daemon
  • Log message to an ODBC database
  • Forward message to viewer (any Telnet client)
  • Execute custom handler (implemented as an ActiveX object)
• Completely customizable log format
• Support for automatic log file purging based on file size
• Support for automatic creation of new log files periodically (hourly, daily, weekly, monthly) or when a particular file size has been reached
• Support for IP-address to hostname resolution with caching for resolved mappings
• Performance Counter Extension
• MMC Snap-In (SL4NT Manager) for local and remote administration
• Support for generating syslog messages for testing or troubleshooting purposes
• Support for saving/restoring service configurations to/from text files
• Support for configuring the syslog service using configuration files

Supported OS: Windows NT/2000/XP/2003

Software Type: Trialware (60 days)