See the More section below for more information.įor a general introduction to the syslog receiver's configuration, please see section Monitoring Syslogs and SNMP Traps. You can use syslog specific placeholders in notification templates in order to see the messages when you receive a notification. You can set it up on a local probe or remote probe only, not on a cluster probe. Note: This sensor type cannot be used in cluster mode. Alternatively, you can add the sensor to a specific device to gain all messages from this device directly this will make this sensor type faster than just using source filters. You can add the sensor to the probe device on the one hand then the sensor will receive all messages of the system running the probe. The received data will be available on your respective probe system as common files, as well as via the web interface. The messages are stored in an internal database for later analysis.
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Depending on the filters, received messages will be counted in the respective channels.
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With the available filter options, you can define individually which types of messages will be considered for monitoring and thus stored, and which messages will be recognized as warning or error messages. It shows the overall number of received syslog messages per second, warning and error messages per second, as well as the number of dropped packets per second. The Syslog Receiver sensor receives and analyzes syslog messages.