Hi Dan,

What exactly did you have in mind for this app/proposal? Darryl wrote a daemon to watch/regex/pull data out of rsyslog streams for the ability to add events to ClearOS (only in version 7). Perhaps it already does what you're looking to do? The current events app is only limited in the number of 'signatures' it currently has...time permitting, we were going to throw this out to the community and see what types of events they wanted to log/be alerted to.

B.

Hello Ben!

First of all thank you for the fast reply and your interest.
I was thinking about a syslog server with an interface integrated in ClearOS WebConsole. This syslog server should be able to receive alerts from LAN appliances. In my case I use a FreeNAS as storage joined to a windows domain on ClearOS, so that the NAS would authenticate clients using the ClearOS directory accounts. It would be nice to have a centralised syslog server, just to be able to see warning or critical alerts from most of the infrastructure.

Thank you,
Dan

Hi Dan,
I guess you realise you can already manually configure rsyslogd to pick up remote alerts (both syslog, typically on port 514 iirc and SNMP messages)? Are you looking for a GUI to configure this?

Hi!

I am quite sure I already replied. Somehow my post vanished.
Indeed I am hopping for an integrated gui cu manage the syslog server. Also an external one would do the job.

Thank you!

Nick Howitt wrote:

Hi Dan,
I guess you realise you can already manually configure rsyslogd to pick up remote alerts (both syslog, typically on port 514 iirc and SNMP messages)? Are you looking for a GUI to configure this?

You did reply earlier - I received a notification e-mail yesterday afternoon, but your post never showed up! Perhaps you were caught by the initial new user restrictions on the site where posts need approval, but I believe it should not apply to subsequent posts.

I remember when I used the logging facility in the past, logging router messages from a remote router via the internet that, although it was easy to set up, there were so many options that creating a GUI round it might be quite difficult. However I am not a dev.

I strongly believe that such application interface would be a great addition to the ClearOS Home edition. Difficult or not, there are not many thing unpredictable about syslog and, as long that something is quantifiable and predictable, it can be modelled into an application interface. Moreover I don't know of such GUI as standalone, which can bring a plus for ClearOS. Does it make sense?

I personally am not convinced about the case for the home edition. I would have thought it were more applicable to the business scenario with a more complex LAN with different devices on it.

You are welcome to raise a feature request. It is somewhere on the site but I'm not sure where.