Forwarding my syslog message to other machine

[Sirius Black]

Hi,
I've to forward my syslog message to another machine which is the syslog server.
What I've to do
Thanks Fabrizio

[Jeff Schussele]

Hi Fabrizio,

This is set up in the /etc/syslog.conf file.
Would be entry(s) like:

*.emerg @syslog_server_name
*.alert @syslog_server_name
*.crit @syslog_server_name

You must insure that port 514/UDP is open between the servers as that's the transport mechanism.

HTH,
Jeff

[RAC_1]

Make sure that port udp/514 is enabled.
Configure the syslogd.conf to send messages to the syslog server.

*.emerg, *.info @server

Anil

[Dave Hutton]

You have to modify the /etc/syslog.conf file. The man page for syslogd gives details on what each field means and different things you can do.

I believe to send all your different levels of alerts to another server you would have a config file that would look like:

*.info @hostname
*.alert @hostname
*.emerg @hostname

Hostname would be your syslog server. I would make a backup of your original syslog.conf file though. I'm not sure if your intention is not to log at all on the server. I would suggest keeping the normal loggin and just adding these as additions.

Kind of like:

*.alert /dev/console
*.alert root
*.alert @hostname
*.emerg *
*.emerg @hostname

Looking at the man page it should still log locally but would also send it your syslog server.