Carlos E. R. said the following on 05/13/2013 03:43 PM:
I also worked sometime for a company that sold a very expensive product that stored text output from logs into databases, producing alarms and usefull things. Hugely expensive... and inefficient. We could find stuff sooner with a PC running Linux and grepping the original text files, than the very expensive machine with expensive software was using.
That doesn't surprise me in the least, but it wasn't what I was thinking of. The database allows for queries about patterns of activity, like classes of events at the same time or in sequence across machines; the same time every day/week/month. "Data mining" -- Definitions are temporary verbalizations of concepts, and concepts -- particularly difficult concepts -- are usually revised repeatedly as our knowledge and understanding grows. -- Ernst Mayr -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org