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SAGAN(8) System Manager's Manual SAGAN(8)

NAME

sagan - Real-time System & Event Log Monitoring System

SYNOPSIS

sagan [options]

DESCRIPTION

This manual page documents briefly the sagan command.

sagan is a multi-threaded, real time system- and event-log monitoring system, but with a twist. Sagan uses a “Snort” like rule set for detecting malicious events happening on your network and/or computer systems.
If Sagan detects a potentially bad event, that event can be stored to a Snort database (MySQL/PostgreSQL), send it to a SIEM tool like Prelude, or send an email.
Sagan is meant to be used in a ‘centralized’ logging environment, but will work fine as part of a standalone Host IDS system for workstations.

OPTIONS

These programs follow the usual GNU command line syntax, with long options starting with two dashes (`-'). A summary of options is included below.

Show summary of options.
Enable debugging
Make process a daemon (fork to the background)
Run as user (defaults to 'sagan')
Chroot to username 'sagan's home
Sagan configuration file to load
Run Sagan in syslog-ng's 'program' mode

AUTHOR

sagan was written by Champ Clark III <champ@softwink.com>

This manual page was written by Pierre Chifflier <pollux@debian.org>, for the Debian project (and may be used by others).

February 15, 2011