Hi, Sandor. Thanks for the reply. I have to configure syslog-ng to forward the logs to the Cacti server. Both firewalls are not enabled. They OSs are OpenSUSE 10.1. Here is the section of the conf file I think you are referring to: #source my_src { .... }; # source src { # # include internal syslog-ng messages # note: the internal() soure is required! # internal(); # # the following line will be replaced by the # socket list generated by SuSEconfig using # variables from /etc/sysconfig/syslog: # unix-dgram("/dev/log"); # # uncomment to process log messages from network: # udp(ip("192.168.x.x") port(514)); }; Basically, Whenever I put the IP of the Cacti server in there and restart the syslog service, I get this: ============== chpas-chngmgt2:~ # /etc/init.d/syslog restart Shutting down syslog services done Starting syslog servicesio.c: bind_inet_socket() bind failed 192.168.x.x:514 Cannot assign requested address Error initializing configuration, exiting. startproc: exit status of parent of /sbin/syslog-ng: 1 failed ============== Obviously, I replace 192.168.x.x with the actual IP. I'm not using syslogd, however some older servers are. What am I doing wrong? On 8/28/07, Geller, Sandor (IT) <Sandor.Geller@morganstanley.com> wrote:
Hello,
Hello everyone! I have a Cacti Server with the Haloe plugin installed. I can get my Windows boxes to talk to the Haloe plugin (syslogs). I have two old servers (running SLES 9 I think) with syslogd installed, reporting in just fine! Here is my issue - I can't figure out how to pipe or forward the data from the box to the syslogs server (Cacti). For those of you who do not know, Cacti is a network monitoring tool/RRDtool front end with a ton of available plugins. Haloe is a centralized syslog server.
First, welcome to the syslog-ng mailing list!
Could you tell about your issue, how is it related to syslog-ng?
If you're trying to forward syslogd messages to remote hosts then use @remotehost in syslogd.conf. If you want to forward messages using syslog-ng then use either the tcp() or the udp() destination drivers in syslog-ng.conf.
Regards,
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