[syslog-ng] sending log messages to graylog

[Péter, Kókai]

Hello,

Okay, how did you tried to collect those logs ? (like file, wildcard-file)

--
Kokan

On Tue, Nov 6, 2018 at 10:17 AM Rodney Bizzell <hardworker30 at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Logs from var logs
>
> 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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