{"id":1552,"date":"2019-03-16T23:15:24","date_gmt":"2019-03-17T03:15:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/matthannan.net\/blog\/?p=1552"},"modified":"2021-02-05T12:15:54","modified_gmt":"2021-02-05T17:15:54","slug":"rsyslog-and-loganalyzer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/matthannan.net\/blog\/rsyslog-and-loganalyzer\/","title":{"rendered":"rsyslog and LogAnalyzer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Continuing on in the Raspberry Pi as network server journey, I now have an rsyslog server (Pi1) collecting logs from the various networky things. I am using this Log Analyzer as the frontend. It was a royal PiTA to get working, but now that it is up, it was worth it. Within a minute (my default refresh time), I can see the results of all of my half-finished projects. Nagging reminders that were previously ignored in log files are now popped up on the screen in the web browser.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&nbsp; View system messages via web Syslog messages Windows Events Status Reports Statistics Web based &nbsp; LogAnalyzer is part of Adiscon\u2019s MonitorWare line of monitoring applications. It runs both under Windows and Unix\/Linux. The database can be populated by MonitorWare Agent, WinSyslog or EventReporter on the Windows side and by rsyslog on the Unix\/Linux side. \u2026 Continue reading &#8220;Home&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Source: <em><a href=\"https:\/\/loganalyzer.adiscon.com\/\">Home &#8211; Adiscon LogAnalyzer<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n<p>{edit} Long overdue edit. In order to get the various devices sending to the collector, you will need to add this line to \/etc\/rsyslog.conf on each of the sending devices:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-code\"><code># provides TCP syslog reception\n#module(load=\"imtcp\")\n#input(type=\"imtcp\" port=\"514\")\n\n# Log to rsyslog \"server\"\n*.*  @@{IP_of_collector}:514\n<\/code><\/pre>\n\n\n\n<p>This gets little confusing and is similar to VNC as to which device is the &#8220;server&#8221; and which is the &#8220;client&#8221;. The server, in this case, is serving the log entries to the client, who is collecting them.  {\/edit}<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Continuing on in the Raspberry Pi as network server journey, I now have an rsyslog server (Pi1) collecting logs from the various networky things. I am using this Log Analyzer as the frontend. It was a royal PiTA to get &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/matthannan.net\/blog\/rsyslog-and-loganalyzer\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[407,406,326,404,405],"class_list":["post-1552","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geek","tag-apache","tag-loganalyzer","tag-raspberrypi","tag-royal-pita","tag-rsyslog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2NxlE-p2","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1555,"url":"https:\/\/matthannan.net\/blog\/rsyslog-loganalyzer-follow-up\/","url_meta":{"origin":1552,"position":0},"title":"rsyslog &#038; LogAnalyzer, follow-up","author":"matthannan","date":"17 March 2019","format":false,"excerpt":"Well, it has been a solid day watching these nagging log entries scroll by over and over again. 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