I was setting up a bunch of monitoring at work as we hadn't have that much implemented. I ran into this application in a random fashion. Sys Junction is an application that graphs out syslog data from Cisco PIX firewalls.

I stumbled upon a little application called "evtsys" that was created by some Computer Engineering folks at Purdue University. The program runs on Microsft Windows 2000/2003/Vista 32-bit or 64-bit version and sends eventlog messages to a networked syslog server. You can then have syslog either print out the alert or write to a file.

This is a really neat application, however I was not able to get it to run on Debian Testing. I was getting a strange error message after installing "python-ctypes" "libnetfilter-conntrack1" through apt-get:


Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/bin/pyctd", line 27, in ?
import pyctd
File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/pyctd/__init__.py", line 2, in ?
from pyctd.conntracking import DataCollector
File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/pyctd/conntracking.py", line 31, in ?
import pynetfilter_conntrack as nfct
File "build/bdist.linux-i686/egg/pynetfilter_conntrack/__init__.py", line 4, in ?
File "build/bdist.linux-i686/egg/pynetfilter_conntrack/func.py", line 32, in ?
File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/ctypes-1.0.2-py2.4-linux-i686.egg/ctypes/__init__.py", line 353, in __getattr__
func = self.__getitem__(name)