This is the documentation for the Kazimir software. Kazimir is a log stream analyzer. It looks at several logs of several
different types, try to find user defined problematic or pathologic situations in these logs and eventually (based on user-defined configuration)
does action to signal or correct the situation.
The reason why I developed such a tool is my own job: I was working as a sysadm and it's hard to keep an eye on every log at all time to locate problems when they occur.
The detection's procedire could be easily automated, so I write Kazimir to do this work instead of me.
Kazimir is written in PERL for two main reasons: it is a fully portable language, and I needed an interpretor for several part of Kazimir, and
regexp management was also critical; PERL has such features, and it was a good thing to use the PERL interpretor (that is fully tested and validated)
instead of re-writing one from my own.
There are several similar tool like Kazimir, some are very simple, some are very complicated. I made Kazimir to be a kind of compromise between all
the tools that I've seen. I also added chronological pattern matching (see below), a feature that I needed and found nowhere. I also wanted a tool
that I would know well enough to modify it quickly if I had a new need. Writing a new tool was far the best way to achieve this.
