Syslog Plugin

[rot727]

Is there a syslog plugin that I can install on my Nagios XI? Were trying to move a few devices that do syslog events to our other monitoring software. I can't find it when I go through the configuration wizard and was hoping Nagios XI can do it.

[sreinhardt]

There are some plugins on exchange.nagios.com, however this functionality is not built into XI by default. We are exploring options for syslogging though.

[arnab.roy]

I can suggest how we have implemented and it works really well, what we have done is used syslong-ng on a separate server(for obvious performance reasons) and created filters within syslog-ng to pipe the outputs of various devices into various files. These files are then monitored by swatch(you will need to run it as a daemon) and based on what we want to alert the moment we pickup an event in the log it then triggers a NSCA trap with all the details of the event and nagios alerts.

Hope that helps. If nagios could have something more simpler in built that would be good.

[lmiltchev]

Thanks for sharing! We will definitely have something simpler built in XI by default.