I just found a free Log analysis tool written in Perl and distributed under a BSD style license. The tool is called LMon and is at version 1.0 and written by Anders Nordby and LMon V1.0 is available from BSD Consulting. This tool allows near real time monitoring of logs and alerts can be sent by email when rules are matched or unknown data is encountered. Multiple rule hits can be buffered over a given time interval. The tool can also notice log rotates. The scripts structure is simple and is run from the command line controlled by a configuration file. Multiple instances can be run against different log files.
This looks like a very useful tool that can be used to monitor Oracle log files, such as the alert log, listener.log and many more. Trace files could also be monitored, database as well as Oracle Networking logs. Even packet capture logs could be monitored. The key in the Oracle arena is setting up the correct rules to look for the security events that are important.
The configuration task could be big but the tool looks like a very useful one for Oracle security practitioners. I have updated my Oracle security tools page to include this free tool.
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December 2004
- Another great recovery disk - This time a CD - 12/01/2004 by 12/01/2004
- Three great papers on shell codes and encoding and decoding - 12/02/2004 by 12/02/2004
- Next Edward Stangler post in the missing catpatch.sql series - 12/03/2004 by 12/03/2004
- Edwards next post in the series of catpatch.sql issues. - 12/04/2004 by 12/04/2004
- Ed's final post in the issues with not running catpatch.sql is there - 12/05/2004 by 12/05/2004
- SANS announces the new Securing Oracle training course - 12/06/2004 by 12/06/2004
- Mary Ann Davidson held a guru chat session at OOW - 12/07/2004 by 12/07/2004
- Oracle Database 10g Release 2 keynote at Oracle Open World - 12/08/2004 by 12/08/2004
- Frank has a good example of simple J2EE form based authentication for ADF UIX - 12/09/2004 by 12/09/2004
- Justin Kestelyn sums up Oracle Open World - 12/10/2004 by 12/10/2004
- News.com article : Finally, a sensible security scheme - 12/11/2004 by 12/11/2004
- Comments have been disabled from my weblog - 12/12/2004 by 12/12/2004
- A useful post on c.d.o.s about ADMIN_RESTRICTIONS_{listener_name} - 12/13/2004 by 12/13/2004
- Arup Nanda has a paper on Oracle Security Auditing part 1 on dbazine.com - 12/14/2004 by 12/14/2004
- Amis blog talks about SQuirrel - an open source database tool - 12/15/2004 by 12/15/2004
- Howard Rogers on dropping the DBA, CONNECT and RESOURCE roles - 12/16/2004 by 12/16/2004
- Tools page updated - 12/17/2004 by 12/17/2004
- Mark has found a good paper on programming Java in stored procedures - 12/18/2004 by 12/18/2004
- Post about setting up and using autotrace - 12/19/2004 by 12/19/2004
- Tools page updated - 12/20/2004 by 12/20/2004
- Database user account status's in SYS.USER_ASTATUS_MAP - 12/21/2004 by 12/21/2004
- SYS.USER_ASTATUS_MAP missing values solved - 12/22/2004 by 12/22/2004
- All the JDeveloper presentations from Oracle Open World - 12/23/2004 by 12/23/2004
- Web site statistics page added - 12/24/2004 by 12/24/2004
- Encrypting JDBC thin connections with SQL*Net - 12/27/2004 by 12/27/2004
- XML DB Beta program for Oracle 10g release 2 - 12/28/2004 by 12/28/2004
- Role based security management in Oracle designer - 12/29/2004 by 12/29/2004
- A free Perl based Log Analysis tool - 12/30/2004 by 12/30/2004
- Happy new year for 2005 - 12/31/2004 by 12/31/2004
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