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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.

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.

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.

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