SysLog Forwarding for XenServer
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 What is missing from the second script is curl -L -O https://download.elastic.co/beats/filebeat/filebeat-1.2.3-x86_64.rpm sudo rpm -vi filebeat-1.2.3-x86_64.rpm
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 So I'm still stumped here.... 
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 Hrm, so I have a clean installation and when I go to the Elk/Logstash Web url I get a login prompt... But I haven't the slightest idea of what the username password is. Trying "kibana" and "changeme" results in the prompt asking for credentials again... 
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 And I'm in. Now to setup XenServer to send stuff to Kibana. 
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 OK So I'm in, and apparently logs are getting sent to this VM.... now how do I see them... lol.... So much to learn... 
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 @DustinB3403 said in SysLog Forwarding for XenServer: OK So I'm in, and apparently logs are getting sent to this VM.... now how do I see them... lol.... So much to learn... Have you looked in Kibana yet? 
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 @StrongBad Yes, and nothing is showing up. So there might be something I messed up while configuring it, or there just isn't anything set to show yet. 
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 They show up quickly. We're the logs pretty regular before the change? 
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 LMFAO. Regular. Logs. 
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 @StrongBad said in SysLog Forwarding for XenServer: They show up quickly. We're the logs pretty regular before the change? With just a basic syslog server setup and forwarding enabled when I viewed /var/log/messages it was blowing by 
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 I still have a few compressed logs (things that aren't marked to be forward to Elk/Kibana) 
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  Obviously I'll need to change the syslog file to make sure those are only sent off host. But why aren't they appearing in Elk/Kibana... 
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 Everything here seems happy.  
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 I still don't know why the logging isn't showing up in Kibana. . . 
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 @DustinB3403 said in SysLog Forwarding for XenServer: I still don't know why the logging isn't showing up in Kibana. . . What do the local logs say? On both ends. There should be Logstash logs saying what has happened. 
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 @scottalanmiller said in SysLog Forwarding for XenServer: @DustinB3403 said in SysLog Forwarding for XenServer: I still don't know why the logging isn't showing up in Kibana. . . What do the local logs say? On both ends. There should be Logstash logs saying what has happened. I'm still new to syslog, so what should I be looking at to answer this question? 
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 You could just use Graylog. It uses rsyslog instead of file-beat (which doesn't work with journalctl anyway). 
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 Since I'm having a hell of time getting this going, I setup a KiwI Syslog on a VM from one of my host, and it just works. Just enabling the logging to the IP address, and let it go. 



