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<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1"><title>Preface</title><meta name="generator" content="DocBook XSL Stylesheets V1.64.1"><link rel="home" href="index.html" title="Lire Developer's Manual"><link rel="up" href="index.html" title="Lire Developer's Manual"><link rel="previous" href="index.html" title="Lire Developer's Manual"><link rel="next" href="pr01s02.html" title="How Is This Book Organized?"></head><body bgcolor="white" text="black" link="#0000FF" vlink="#840084" alink="#0000FF"><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">Preface</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="index.html">Prev</a>�</td><th width="60%" align="center">�</th><td width="20%" align="right">�<a accesskey="n" href="pr01s02.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr></div><div class="preface" lang="en"><div class="titlepage"><div><div><h2 class="title"><a name="id2452954"></a>Preface</h2></div></div><div></div></div><div class="toc"><p><b>Table of Contents</b></p><dl><dt><span class="section"><a href="pr01.html#sect:what-contains">What This Book Contains</a></span></dt><dt><span class="section"><a href="pr01s02.html">How Is This Book Organized?</a></span></dt><dt><span class="section"><a href="pr01s03.html">Conventions Used</a></span></dt><dt><span class="section"><a href="pr01s04.html">If You Don't Find Something In This Manual</a></span></dt></dl></div><p>Log file analysis is both an essential and tedious part of
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<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1"><title>Preface</title><meta name="generator" content="DocBook XSL Stylesheets V1.68.1"><link rel="start" href="index.html" title="Lire Developer's Manual"><link rel="up" href="index.html" title="Lire Developer's Manual"><link rel="prev" href="index.html" title="Lire Developer's Manual"><link rel="next" href="pr01s02.html" title="How Is This Book Organized?"></head><body bgcolor="white" text="black" link="#0000FF" vlink="#840084" alink="#0000FF"><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">Preface</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="index.html">Prev</a>�</td><th width="60%" align="center">�</th><td width="20%" align="right">�<a accesskey="n" href="pr01s02.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr></div><div class="preface" lang="en"><div class="titlepage"><div><div><h2 class="title"><a name="id2476282"></a>Preface</h2></div></div></div><div class="toc"><p><b>Table of Contents</b></p><dl><dt><span class="section"><a href="pr01.html#sect:what-contains">What This Book Contains</a></span></dt><dt><span class="section"><a href="pr01s02.html">How Is This Book Organized?</a></span></dt><dt><span class="section"><a href="pr01s03.html">Conventions Used</a></span></dt><dt><span class="section"><a href="pr01s04.html">If You Don't Find Something In This Manual</a></span></dt></dl></div><p>Log file analysis is both an essential and tedious part of
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system administration. It is essential because it's the best way
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of profiling the usage of the service installed on the network.
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It's tedious because programs generate a lot of data and tools to
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programs. Multiple programs are supported for various types of
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network services. <span class="application">Lire</span> also supports various output formats for
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the generated reports.
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</p><div class="section" lang="en"><div class="titlepage"><div><div><h2 class="title" style="clear: both"><a name="sect:what-contains"></a>What This Book Contains</h2></div></div><div></div></div><p>This book is the <i class="citetitle"><span class="application">Lire</span> Developer's Manual</i>. Its purpose is to present
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</p><div class="section" lang="en"><div class="titlepage"><div><div><h2 class="title" style="clear: both"><a name="sect:what-contains"></a>What This Book Contains</h2></div></div></div><p>This book is the <em class="citetitle"><span class="application">Lire</span> Developer's Manual</em>. Its purpose is to present
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<span class="application">Lire</span> as a log analysis framework. To this ends, it describes
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the architecture and design of <span class="application">Lire</span> and contains
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comprehensive instructions on how to use it. Its intended
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audience is system administrators or programmers who want to
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extend <span class="application">Lire</span> or want to understand its internals.
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</p><p>There is another book, the <i class="citetitle"><span class="application">Lire</span> User's Manual</i> which describes
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</p><p>There is another book, the <em class="citetitle"><span class="application">Lire</span> User's Manual</em> which describes
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how to install, configure and use <span class="application">Lire</span>, as a
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“<span class="quote">off-the-shelf</span>” log analyzer. Its intended
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audience is system administrators who want to install and use
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<span class="application">Lire</span> to gather information about the services operating on
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