All about Syslog

If you need to receive syslog on Windows or on Linux, you can just follow those links. If you would like to dig deeper into syslog, please read on. We have quite a lot of information on syslog on our web pages. This page here tries to summarize everything and guide you through it. If you are interested to learn what syslog is, how it can be used and how to actually setup things, this page is for you!

software

• syslog server (daemon) for Windows
• Windows eventlog to syslog converter
• anything-to-syslog converter (Windows)
• Linux syslog: rsyslog, syslog-ng

syslog tutorials and guides

• "Introduction to Syslog" Seminar
• An introduction into the syslog protocol
• Guides to configuring devices and programs to emit syslog
• syslog configuration discussion forum
• How to Monitor Windows NT from Unix or Linux

syslog standardization

• The IETF syslog-sec working group home page
• RFC 3164
• RFC 3195
• syslog-protocol
• Rainer's syslog-sec archive

syslog programming

• liblogging - an easy to use open source syslog library

syslog - other stuff

• Rainer's syslog blog
• phpLogCon - a web interface for syslog data