ABlog is meant to be used by system administrators or other persons as a kind of stationary.
Select a machine, a service and give a comment. This data is stored then.
It's simple to use and simple to configure. Needs Apache, PHP and PostgreSQL.
Sportal is made for people that need to know what is going on in their systems. It monitors files that you select, for "hot words" that you also select, through a graphical interface.This is work in progress, i spect it to grown to a full IDS.