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Syslog to Event Log

To log Syslog packets to the event log, click the "Syslog to Event Log" tab and check the "Log to the APPLICATION Event Log" check box. You will also be able to configure the severity mappings, since the Syslog protocol defines 8 instead of just 3 severities.

EventSentry will log all messages to the application event log with event ID 500 and event source EventSentry Network Services.

Severity Mapping

Since EventSentry logs Syslog messages to the Windows event log, you will need to specify how the Syslog error levels correspond to the Windows event log error levels.

Settings

By default, no incoming Syslog messages will be logged to the event log. Click the + icon to add strings that will trigger event log alerts (see below for filtering syntax and examples). Wildcards * and ? are supported.

Include: Log all messages to the event log, except for exclusions below

This setting will log all Syslog messages to the event log. Syslog messages containing strings that are listed below will not be logged to the event log.

Exclude: Only log messages to the database that are included below

This is the default setting, and will log Syslog messages to the event log that match the strings listed below. This allows you to only write Syslog messages to the event log that match your filters.

Syntax

Syslog message filters are compared to the following Syslog format:

hostname[facility.severity]: content

ipaddress[facility.severity]: content

hostname: The host name of the remote host, if the remote IP address as was able to be resolved to a host name

ipaddress: The IP address of the remote host, if the host name could not be resolved with a reverse lookup

facility: The Syslog facility, e.g. auth, cron, kern, etc.

severity: The Syslog severity, e.g. emerg, alert, crit, etc.

content: The actual content of the Syslog message

Examples:

firewall01.prod.local[kern.crit]: Invalid login from 11.32.23.111

192.1.3.4[cron.notice]: /USR/SBIN/CRON[26051]: (root) CMD ( cd / && run-parts --report /etc/cron.hourly)

ubuntu-box[authpriv.notice]: sudo: root : TTY=unknown ; PWD=/ ; USER=administrator ; COMMAND=/usr/bin/gconftool --get /system/http_proxy/use_http_proxy

Example Filters