Logzilla: First sample API application available for download

jzhen

Posted:Thu, 07/17/2008 - 22:21

As part of LogLogic's continued effort to help our customers, partners and the community to better utilize LogLogic's API, we have been building some sample applications to show case what can be done with the open API. Our goal is to be as open as possible with the API and the sample applications. As such, we have chosen the most liberal license, the New BSD license, for the sample applications.

The first of such application is Logzilla. Logzilla is an application built using the LogLogic Open API. It's designed to be a troubleshooting and forensics analysis tool for administrators. The focus of the application is search. It also utilizes report data to assist search. Earlier this week we have provided a video demo of it.

I am happy to announce that we have also made it available on Google Code so that you can get full access to the source code as well as the application binary (war file). Here are some immediate links that you may find useful:

To install Logzilla, all you really need to do is download logzilla.war and put it in your application server's webapps directory. Logzilla has only been tested with Tomcat at this time, however. Once the application is installed, point your browser to

https://app_server_ip/logzilla

There you should see a login window. The username is loglogic_appliance_ip/username_on_the_appliance. So if you have a LogLogic LX appliance with the IP address of 192.168.3.2 and an account with the username johndoe, then the username for Logzilla should be 192.168.3.2/johndoe. The password is johndoe's password on the LX appliance. As you might have guessed by now, Logzilla's authentication is simply an API call to the LX to authenticate the user.

While building Logzilla, we have made use of several services, including DeviceService, AuthenticationService, ReportService and SearchFilterService.

We will explore some of the concepts and ideas of Logzilla in future posts. If you do download and test out Logzilla, I would love to hear your feedback on it.

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GabrielFriedmann

Giving logzilla a test

Posted:Tue, 08/12/2008 - 11:24

I think it would be very useful to have a logzilla quickstart for those unfamiliar with java application servers.

If anybody reads it, here are some QuickStart instructions for running filezilla on a windows host.

Apache Tomcat and Logzilla QuickStart Instructions for Windows

Pre-Req: You may have to download the Java Software Environment. http://java.sun.com/javase/downloads/index.jsp

Download and install Apache Tomcat 6.x for Windows (http://tomcat.apache.org)
Windows Service Installer –
After Installation, you can access the tomcat management interface @ http://localhost:8080/manager/html/list
You can use this page to Upload and Deploy the logzilla.war file. (Alternatively, you may copy logzilla.war into the \Program Files\Apache Software Foundation\Tomcat 6.0\webapps\ directory)
After a minute or so, the new web-application will automatically be loaded and made available @ http://localhost:8080/logzilla/
Verify that your loglogic user account is configured to enable “Allow this user account to connect via Web Services” option in the loglogic user manager.
Log in with user “LXApplianceHost/username” and password . LXapplianceHost may be the resolvable hostname or loglogic device IP address.

GabrielFriedmann

IE7 logzilla incompatibility?

Posted:Tue, 08/12/2008 - 11:26

I wonder if i'm the only one seeing this.

Bug: Doesn’t seem to behave very well when viewed using IE 7 (server: Tomcat 6.0.18, Java 1.6.0_07). It appears to be javascript related. Example: hovering over “assets” in IE 7 doesn’t display “fancy or TAB” options. When clicked it tries to show Fancy, but it looks horrendous.

Firefox 3 looks fine.

jzhen

Re: IE7 logzilla incompatibility?

Posted:Tue, 08/12/2008 - 13:18

Gabriel,

I don't seem to have any problem with IE7 or Firefox 2 and 3. I haven't tested against IE6 so there will likely be issues there. The version of IE I am using is 7.0.5730.11 (from About IE). \

The drop down menu seems to work fine when I hover over "Assets". The fancy listing looks fine for me as well. Both IE7 and FF3 look very similar for that listing.

Are you sure you are not using IE6? :)

Thanks

Jian

jzhen

Re: Giving logzilla a test

Posted:Tue, 08/12/2008 - 13:19

Gabriel,

Thanks very much for posting this. This is very useful for many users.

Much appreciated!

Jian

jzhen

New forum for Logzilla

Posted:Tue, 08/12/2008 - 13:22

Hi all,

I've added a forum for discussing anything related to Logzilla here.

If you have any questions related to Logzilla, please feel free to use the Logzilla forum.

Thanks

Jian