Every Network Engineer needs a syslog server
Here's a quick and fairly reliable syslog collector that we have used. OS: Ubuntu 16.04.2 CPU: Dual Core RAM: 4GB or 8GB Software Package: syslog-ng Goal: Collect log from multiple sources and place them into logical files and folder. With that said, let get started... First, disable rsyslog so that it can not interfere with syslog-ng service and reboot the server. Issue the following command to disable the service from start up. #sudo systemctl disable rsyslog Upon reboot, install syslog-ng and enable the service. #sudo apt-get install syslog-ng #sudo systemctl enable syslog-ng Create a new configuration file for syslog-ng service. #sudo nano /etc/syslog-ng/conf.d/syslog.conf ------------------------------------------------------------- options { chain_hostnames(no); create_dirs(yes); dir_perm(0755); dns_cache(yes); keep_hostname(yes); log_fifo_size(2048); log_msg_size(8192); perm(0644); time_reopen(10); use_dns(yes); use_f...