Installing Fedora 16 on Power 7

If you have a new Power 7 box running IBM i, and you still have some more processing units or virtual processors, you could start considering using Linux. At first time you take a look into IBM Power Linux website, you could see only 2 Linux distro for PowerPC / POWER processors: Suse Linux and Red Hat. Both distros are enterprise and has a cost... but someone told you about...

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Installing RSYNC on iSeries / AS400

Everday im digging more and more about iSeries PASE, my ydill with iSeries get better… and also with the Unix world. Once i tested the syslog tool from PASE, i started wondering how it could be posible to monitor logs data on real-time. A FTP based solution seems complicated and a RPG/Sockect application is out of my skills. SYSLOG is good to handle system logs, but i need something more robust and i dont want to change programs to move logs over SYSLOG. But i found RSYNC!. Rsync  is a tool that synchronizes files and directories...

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Monitoring ODBC and FTP Login entries to SYSLOG

Now that Syslog in IBM i is working and sending data to a remote server, i think i will use for auditing ODBC and FTP entries on my system. I have already a FTP Server Request Validation exit point to control what the ftp users can do on my server, but it´s writing a lot of data into a database log. For auditing reason im just interested in audit the logon for users coming in FTP and ODBC server. Basically, using Exit Points programs, you can send whatever you need to SYSLOG: telnet sessions, audit change of users profiles, BRMS logs, etc. I...

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Remote SYSLOGD from AS400 to UNIX or Linux Servers.

I started this blog at the same time im wondering how to integrate AS400 system logs with a centralized log system. In my study im going to use SPLUNK, but the purposals of this post could apply to every log system. For my proyect, i´d like to send all kind of logs to Splunk: system logs, audit logs and application logs. What do i need? To send system logs via tcp or udp to the centralized log system in real-time, where i can query or analyze or simple keep the data. For system logs i heard about "syslog" as a standard for computer data logging....

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