sagan - Real-time System & Event Log Monitoring System
Contents
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.
Name
sagan - Real-time System & Event Log Monitoring System
Options
These programs follow the usual GNU command line syntax, with long options starting with two dashes
(`-'). A summary of options is included below.
-h,--help
Show summary of options.
-d,--debug
Enable debugging
-D,--daemon
Make process a daemon (fork to the background)
-U,--user
Run as user (defaults to 'sagan')
-c,--chroot
Chroot to username 'sagan's home
-f,--config
Sagan configuration file to load
-p,--program
Run Sagan in syslog-ng's 'program' mode
Synopsis
sagan [options]
