[syslog-ng] Check connection to server

[Balazs Scheidler]

On Thu, 2011-07-21 at 13:58 +0200, Josu Lazkano wrote:
> Hello again.
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> I had my syslog server configured and running. All servers has public
> IP but they are on the same LAN. Now I want to get all logs from a
> remote server.
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> I configured the remote server same as LAN servers but there is no
> logs from WAN.
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> How could I check if it is sending data to my syslog server?

Well, the easiest would be to confirm that there are indeed network
packets, coming from the WAN to your server. You could do that with
tcpdump, wireshark or something similar.

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> Maybe I must configure filters to do that?
> 

No, filters() are meant to sort messages into different destinations,
_iff_ they arrived. As it seems you have a network connection issue. 

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Bazsi