Syslog messages circulate around your network and provide valuable information for system monitoring. You don't have to pay anything for this information if you use a free Syslog server. The Syslog ...

Whatever else you do to secure a Linux system, it must have comprehensive, accurate and carefully watched logs. Logs serve several purposes. First, they help us troubleshoot virtually all kinds of ...

Jack Wallen walks you through the process of setting up a centralized Linux log server using syslog-ng. Let’s say your data center is filled with Linux servers and you need to administer them all.

I want to setup a syslog server to collect information from my switches, routers and servers. My servers are all Windows based (2000 & 2003). I've looked at some software to make Windows a client but ...

i run rsyslog with relp, to push all logs into central logging servers and load the messages into a database. i have a bunch of servers configured to not log messages to /var/log/journal/* and forward ...

When a Linux user finds his system nearly out of disk space and unwilling to save files, fellow Linux users online provide a solution. The more you know about how Linux works, the better you’ll be ...

(SYStem LOG protocol) A protocol for transmitting event messages and alerts across an IP network. Messages are sent by the operating system or application at the start or end of a process or to report ...