Module · v1.0.0

Syslog listener (UDP)

Receives syslog (RFC 3164 and RFC 5424 over UDP) on an agent near the senders, keeps only the lines worth an event — authentication failures, interface changes, configuration changes and critical severities by default — and sends them to an event source of type Syslog, which records…

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Use cases

  • A service: the agent opens UDP 514 and keeps it running.
  • Nothing is ever sent back.

Included in packs

Each of these packs carries this module, so installing the pack installs it too.

  • Syslog listener (on an agent)Syslog received by a Keystone agent near the senders, with no adapter to install: the syslog-listener module (UDP 514) and the syslog-tcp-listener module (TCP 6514, with TLS and optional client certificates) run as services the agent supervises, keep only the lines worth an event —…
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