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Hello ,

I have a requirement to Monitor Syslog (which permits the consolidation of logging data from different types of systems in a central repository) using Nagios.

can any one help me on configuring this on Nagios.

From the Product Documentation I can understand we can configure this using Nagios Log server ? does this the only option available ? or do we have anyway around ?

also

can we Install Nagios Log server on Nagios XI server ( I mean on same Physical Box) ? or does it require a separate Hardware to Install ? Please suggest

mdamera905 wrote:From the Product Documentation I can understand we can configure this using Nagios Log server

Nagios Log Server is by far the best product we offer for monitoring logs. We offer 500MB / day of logs for the free version of NLS.

mdamera905 wrote:does this the only option available ?

No, but it's the best.

mdamera905 wrote:or do we have anyway around ?

Here's one document we offer providing a solution: https://assets.nagios.com/downloads/nag ... Swatch.pdf. I have not tested this, so it could be a bit outdated. You could also write a bash script to do it using NRPE. We have a document for monitoring Windows logs using XI here as well: https://assets.nagios.com/downloads/nag ... entLog.pdf. @willemdh, one of our community MVPs, also wrote a great guide here: https://outsideit.net/real-time-eventlog-monitoring/.

mdamera905 wrote:can we Install Nagios Log server on Nagios XI server

Maybe, but it's not tested, supported, or recommended. If you are using VMs on the machine, then that's fine, but it should definitely be isolated from Nagios XI.