Syslog over TCP ?

Roland Gentner · Post by **Roland Gentner** » Thu Mar 26, 2009 11:10 am

Hallo!

We cant use Syslog over UDP.

Is it possible to use Syslog over TCP?
How can we configure it in HostMonitor Version 7.78?

Regards
Roland Gentner

KS-Soft · Post by **KS-Soft** » Thu Mar 26, 2009 12:56 pm

Do you mean you cannot use UDP protocol due to some security policy? or you mean HostMonitor cannot send the message due to some error?

If your syslog daemon accepts TCP connections, I think you may try to setup "Send data to TCP/UDP port". Use "Init packet to send" similat to this <12>%mmm% %dd% %hh%:%nn%:00 192.168.10.100 hostmon.exe[100]:message you want to send, e.g. %TestName% %Status% %Reply%
Where 12 is Facility*8+Severity, 12 = User-level message + Warning, so <11> means User-level message + Error, <13> means User-level message + Notice, etc.
192.168.10.100 is IP address of the system, you should use IP address of the system where HostMonitor is runnign

Regards
Alex

Roland Gentner · Post by **Roland Gentner** » Thu Mar 26, 2009 5:51 pm

Hallo Alex!

> Do you mean you cannot use UDP protocol due to some security policy?
> or you mean HostMonitor cannot send the message due to some error?
Our self programmed syslog server can only work with TCP protocoll. We are not able to implement UDP now.

Thank you for your sample to work with "send data to TCP/UDP port"!!!
We will attempt to implement this in HostMonitor next days.

Regards
Roland

Roland Gentner · Post by **Roland Gentner** » Sat Mar 28, 2009 1:28 pm

Hallo Alex

thank you for your help! It goes - very well!

Regards
Roland

KS-Soft · Post by **KS-Soft** » Sat Mar 28, 2009 1:36 pm

You are welcome

Regards
Alex