Hey all, got a quick question!

I want to receive, parse and store syslogs from various devices on my home network on my windows box. I know, I know, its a bit backwards but I’d like to proceed with this sort of setup if possible (not against discussion, of course).

I’ve looked and looked for options but it seems like everything has been bare bones and basically just receives, or is locked behind premium. Surely there’s some sort of solution out there, no? I’d be willing to implement something in Python if I need to but I’m considerably more hesitant when compared to using an open source soln.

Thanks for your time, looking forward to discussing/learning more!

  • corsicanguppy@lemmy.caEnglish
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    6 months ago

    Your choices are

    • nxlog - it’s awesome.
    • rsyslog built for windows - it’s rsyslog, but built for windows
    • some ridiculously rube-goldbergian mess that requires you set up an entire ecosystem and get a PhD to get properly configured with your 3 new staff members.

    Both use code from rsyslog, listen on 514 (configurable) and do logging. I think they’ll even take mqtt and json-format stuff, but I wasn’t needing that yet so I didn’t care

    Full disclosure: I first started looking into this at my last post, a mere 600 boxes for windows, which I don’t do and didn’t care about except some log guy was a splunk fanboy dick and I punked him as often as I could because splunk’s absolute inability to cope pissed me off and thus he did by association – thus the mqtt angle as I tried to push that transport idea through because splunk has no clue anymore and can’t cope with mqtt and I liked to see his brain reboot. I’m a Linux/Unix guy so I mainly quote on things that will bring the oddballs into line. My new spot has like 3600 winboxes and I just heard that group’s choice for shipping logs to the central log correlation is …

    … Nxlog.

    Grain of salt, but good luck.

    • stevedidwhat_infosec@infosec.pubOPEnglish
      1·
      6 months ago

      Yeah so rsyslog is one of those premium products. Seems like I can only practically receive without paying for fuckin parsing capabilities (ew)

      But I’ll definitely check out the other! Appreciate it!