[syslog-ng] sending log messages to graylog

[Rodney Bizzell]

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On Tue, Nov 6, 2018, 1:03 AM Péter, Kókai <peter.kokai at oneidentity.com
wrote:

> Hello,
>
> Please do not assume we know about default configuration, as we do not
> know the source of your packages. (of course I could guess, but assumption
> are mostly source of errors)
>
> Yes with **log** you can and should connect source and destination - just
> like in your e-mail.
>
> Could you please be more specific about what you mean by local logs ? Logs
> from journal (if you have systemd), logs from files (/var/log/...) ?
>
> A good bet would be the **system** source, that should detect the system
> and choose the appropriate method to collect the host logs.
> See:
> https://www.syslog-ng.com/technical-documents/doc/syslog-ng-open-source-edition/3.18/administration-guide/25#TOPIC-1043976
>
>
> I would suggest for you to break up your debugging process:
> * Verify if you could send logs to graylog (I think this was done)
> * Verify if you could collect local logs (for example print those logs
> into a file instead of graylog)
>
> If the above two are okay, you can connect them with a log and should work.
>
>
> --
> Kokan
>
> On Mon, Nov 5, 2018 at 9:55 PM Rodney Bizzell <hardworker30 at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Do I need to do something like this?
>>
>> # Define TCP syslog destination.
>> destination d_net {
>>     syslog("graylog.example.org" port(514));
>> };
>> # Tell syslog-ng to send data from source s_src to the newly defined syslog destination.
>> log {
>>     source(s_src); # Defined in the default syslog-ng configuration.
>>     destination(d_net);
>> };
>>
>> syslog server not sending local logs to graylog
>>
>>
>> On Mon, Nov 5, 2018 at 2:32 PM Péter, Kókai <peter.kokai at oneidentity.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Dear Rodney Bizzell,
>>>
>>> I would kindly ask you to either start a new thread or reply to with a
>>> relevant information in the mailing list. Otherwise it is really hard to
>>> send follow up to your and others questions.
>>>
>>> As to per your question. Probably you want to forward your other logs to
>>> where syslog-ng is running :) and configure syslog-ng to receive those
>>> other logs, and connect the destination that already can send to graylog
>>> with the source that can and does receive other logs.
>>>
>>> In practice:
>>>
>>> @version: 3.18
>>> @include "scl.conf"
>>>
>>> source my_s { default-network-driver(); };
>>>
>>> destination graylog { #graylog destination
>>> };
>>>
>>> log {  source(my_s); destination(graylog); };
>>>
>>> I hope this helps.
>>>
>>> Best regards,
>>> Peter Kokai
>>>
>>> On Mon, Nov 5, 2018 at 7:52 PM Rodney Bizzell <hardworker30 at gmail.com>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> I got syslog to send and echo test message from syslog server to my
>>>> graylog box. How do I ensure that my syslog box will send other servers
>>>> logs to my graylog box through my syslog server. I am going to setup
>>>> ipvsadm as load-balancer to point my legacy application to my syslog server
>>>> and then they should get shipped through to graylog. Any information is
>>>> greatly appreciated
>>>>
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