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I am a newbee to the log server would like to ssh into to the server to view log files, please can you advise where I can add a ssh user or alternatively view the existing user.

Thanks in advance.

If you installed the OVF for Log Server, the default root password is "nagiosls"

Thanks @eloyd!

@rayc - he is correct, the root password is nagiosls -- let us know if you have any further questions.

Hi Guys,

Thanks for the quick responses, I have now gained access via ssh.

I have another question re checking if Nagios is receiving logs from my test router,from the ssh command line.

I have set up the Cisco router with the following config;

logging trap debugging
logging source-interface GigabitEthernet0/0
logging host 10.1.50.6
logging host 10.1.50.6 transport udp port 5544

To ensure a constant stream of logs I have set up a SIP messaging debug , I can see the generated logs at the Cisco end. However from the Nagios Log Server dashboard I an only see logs from 127.0.0.1 so far. By reading reading previous posts on this forum I see that there are a few commands that I can run from the server command line to confirm whether the log stream is reaching our Nagios LS. Is there a document that I can follow to assist in this process?

Thanks in advance.

Can you look at /var/log/logstash/logstash.log and see if there is anything happening in there? Your logs from router could be getting dropped if it doesn't like the syslog format they use. If you do a tail -f /var/log/logstash/logstash.log and see that is noisy, let us know and I can provide a fix.

Many thanks for the reply, I found a a filter to fix the Syslog format elsewhere on this site. It is now logging fine.

Awesome, are we good to mark this thread as resolved then?

Yes sorry for the late reply.