Solaris 11 Nagios Log Server configuration

[lmichel]

I am having difficulties configuring my boxes running Solaris 11 to communicate with the Nagios syslog server which I am evaluating right now.
can anyone assist/


i followed the same instruction for Linux but that is not working.
can you please provide a sample configuration file I can use. The one for Linux does not work at all with Solaris.

[jolson]

What does your Solaris 11 box typically use for remote logfile generation? Any application that can send logs remotely is capable of logging to Nagios Log Server. Rsyslog and syslog-ng are the most common candidates on Unix-like operating systems. The following stack exchange post may be useful: http://unix.stackexchange.com/questions ... ote-system

You can simply edit the /etc/syslog.conf file and, wherever /var/adm/messages appears, duplicate the line and replace /var/adm/messages by @remoteSystem with remoteSystem being the IP address or hostname of the remote server where to send the logs.

eg:

before:

...
*.err;kern.debug;daemon.notice;mail.crit /var/adm/messages
...

after:

...
*.err;kern.debug;daemon.notice;mail.crit /var/adm/messages
*.err;kern.debug;daemon.notice;mail.crit @jaylogserver
...

Restart syslogd for the change to be taken into account:

# svcadm restart system-log

Note that the remote server must be configured to accept remote messages. If on Solaris too, that would be done with this command:

# svccfg -s system-log setprop config/log_from_remote = true
# svcadm restart system-log