Tool: Syslog Turbo, DHCP Turbo, etc.
Softwares from Weird-Solution seems somewhat cool.
http://www.weird-solutions.com/
As for Syslog Turbo there are things that is helpful for daily sysadmin jobs, like analysis and log rotation features. We can manipulate it with a sql-like dialect, which may be fairly useful as long as you are familiar with SQL.
There are other easy-to-manipulate server softwares like DHCP, BOOTP, and TFTP so please check them out.