LOG MANAGEMENT LogLogic's LX REVIEWED BY PHORAM MEHTA LogLogic Price: Starts at $50,000 Although device logs can contain a wide variety of information, little attention was given to the review and management of these logs until regulations like SOX, HIPAA and PCI made it mandatory. Now companies are finding there is far more to gain from reviewing and auditing logs than just compliance. LogLogic offers enterprise-class appliances for analyzing and archiving log data that enable organizations to achieve compliance, while offering decision support and improved availability. We reviewed the LX 2010, one of the LX family of appliances for real-time log data collection and analysis. (The ST series interfaces with NAS and WORM devices for mass storage.) Installation/Setup B+   LX 2010 is a beast of an appliance with a 2 TB RAW (1 TB in RAID 10) storage capacity, dual 2.4 AMD Opteron processors and 4 GB of memory. The setup is as simple as it gets, supported by a hardened Linux kernel, MySQL database, Apache Web server and Java. The only thing left for the user is mounting the hard drive in the slots in allotted order and changing the default IP address on the Ethernet interface used to access the Web-based management console, which is easily done through the GUI or CLI. An appliance can be used to manage multiple LX and/or ST deployments. The access control feature allows you to restrict network access based on source IP address and destination port, similar to access lists used by routers or firewalls. The GUI provides controls to access different parts of the system, and menu items display according to the level of privileges granted to a specific user.

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