Forwarding rule

About this task

After checking that the local syslog server is listening on port 514 and is receiving EPM log messages, the next step is to forward the logs to the external syslog server using TLS over 6514.

Procedure

Go to the Primary EPM Server.
Open the vi /etc/rsyslog.conf file.

At the end of the file, append the following line:

*. * @@XXX.XXX.XXX.XXXX:6514

Where,

XXX.XXX.XXX.XXXX is the IP address of the remote syslog server
@@ Denotes TCP (Recommended)
@ Denotes UDP

If the remote log server is configured to listen only on TCP connections, or if you want to use a reliable transport network protocol such as TCP, add another @ character before the remote host.

# ### begin forwarding rule ###
# The statement between the begin ... end define a SINGLE forwarding rule. They belong together, do NOT split them. If you create multiple forwarding rules, duplicate the whole block!
# Remote Logging (we use TCP for reliable delivery)
#
# An on-disk queue is created for this action. If the remote host is down, messages are spooled to disk and sent when it is up again.
#$WorkDirectory /var/lib/rsyslog # where to place spool files
#$ActionQueueFileName fwdRule1 # unique name prefix for spool files
#$ActionQueueMaxDiskSpace 1g   # 1gb space limit (use as much as possible)
#$ActionQueueSaveOnShutdown on # save messages to disk on shutdown
#$ActionQueueType LinkedList   # run asynchronously
#$ActionResumeRetryCount -1    # infinite retries if host is down
# remote host is: name/ip:port, e.g. 192.168.0.1:514, port optional
#*.* @@remote-host:514
#*.* @10.129.187.100:514
*.* @@XXX.XXX.XXX.XXX:6514
# ### end of the forwarding rule ###