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[Anita Damelio]

Thediagnostics will show you some basic stats for the server itself, top talkers, dns stats, static host entries, and various message stats. If you scroll down, towards the bottom half of the report, you should find some stats relating to message buffers. I would check those first, and see how if you have any overflow messages, and what percentage free is available. I have had numerous different issues cause the service to stop. While I have not performed the same actions you have, the last time I ran into this issue, I was simply adding a new rule. Another time, they narrowed it down to a database issue, as I had several rules dumping data into different tables in the same database.

I had a similar problem except I couldn't get kiwi syslog server running on w2k12R2 server that was also a DC... we're going to move it to a windows 7 host instead as a solution. I couldn't get the service to start and stay running at all.

It seems that some .net updates or something screwed up the compatibility , coworker found the main issue with the setup of the Kiwi Syslog Service Manager and updates our support ticket with this information. Now we are a week into this ticket and we didn't get a response anymore.

To solve the issue with the manager, I can confirm that copying the DLL to the program folder itself solves the messages and errors for about 98% (as in everything works, but sometimes there is a new error that pops-up because of error handling (according to .NET explanation)).

This is all fine and dandy, but the volume of information that the syslog server receives is immense. The data is really no good to me unless I can do something with it and I was under the impression that I could interrogate this data and create real-time alerts.

We have been experiencing an issue with our Kiwi Syslog Service crashing about every other day. We are running version 9 and have a pretty standard setup where we are pushing syslogs from all of our devices in our network. We have quite a bit of stuff logging to our Syslog server and are easily breaching the 200000 maximum message count throughout the day and getting email's. We up'ed that and seem to be doing better however the syslog service continues to fail and will at times restart itself based off of the services recovery failure to restart the service but this is happening way to often.

Has anyone else seen this problem and if so, what kinds of things did you try/do? Is this box just getting pegged so hard that it's causing the service to malfunction and trip up? I'm not a Windows guy but is this issue even Windows related? The only other application we have running on this server is CatTools and it runs clean with no service issues. The systems team has taken a look at the server and believe this to be related only to the Kiwi application itself.

Next Steps: I'm thinking of removing and rebuilding the Kiwi 9 application from scratch to see if this corrects the issue but wanted some direction from the forum if anyone has any good ideas/suggestions.

I can only see log files for those date that I launched the Kiwi Syslog Server application. I thought with that setting, regardless if I launch the Kiwi Syslog Server application or not, the log file should still be collected and saved.

I have setup my KIWI syslog server to listen for SNMP traps, successfully. Is there a way to setp KIWI, or an available action to forward the SNMP traps to other SNMP trap receivers as KIWI receives them.

5. Second message is not sent and it throws an exception " Unable to write data to the transport connection: An established connection was aborted by the software in your host machine." (which is the desired behavior).

I setup kiwi syslog server and could receive message from other devices, such cisco switch 2960, 5510, and windows server. But can not get any message from 3750. I enclosed 3750 configuration as below. Please help to take a look and where am I wrong. Thank you.

I have setup the the log to database using the built in sql file format as well as creating one from scratch. What I don't get is that every time I use the debug command, the table gets updated properly without any errors. But when I apply my settings the log file gets filled with errors. I know it is complaining about quotes someplace, but in the view none of the statements have any quotes in them.

I'm trialing Kiwi Syslog and I'm having trouble with the Log Forwarder and Security Event Log. When I click on the Security Log I don't see Audit Success or Audit Failure as an event type. It just has Error, Warning and Information. If I manually edit the CFG file and add 16 it works, but then it gets overwritten if I make a change. Am I doing something wrong? How can I see Audit Failure as an Event Type?

I am experiencing an urgent issue. The sys log server forwarder is forwarding the following message to the KIWI sys log server. The actual security logs are showing the correct information, however the message below is being showed. I thought it was the server, but wen I added another sever to forward security logs, I am getting the same message as shown below.

I have recently taken over a sys admin position, and am required to move the location of the Kiwi Syslog Server logs to another file location. I have never used it prior. However, I can't seem to move the file.

If I test the configuration, I can see the test messages in the location noted about. However, after I apply the settings, the older location (a CIFS share) continues to receive the actual syslogs of the devices we monitor.

This is on a fresh physical Windows 2012 server and is running as a local system service. The service runs, collects logging, and we have web access working. However, whenever I try to open the Kiwi Manager, it crashes. I do have a support ticket in place but as of now, it has been sent up to the developers. It's frustrating for the syslog catchall files because we can't filter what we want.

I have installed a universal forwarder to read logs from syslog server and forward them to heavy forwarder. I have kiwi syslog server to receive logs from all syslog based data sources and had planned to configure multiple UDP ports for ease of sourcetype categorisation. However, I realised it only supports 1 udp port at a time.

Are you using the free or full version of Kiwi? The full version should be able to take everything on a single UDP port, then use the "AutoSplit" feature, by hostname for example, and have them write out to their own directories. The UF can monitor these individually, so you can sourcetype them properly and use a segment in path to pick up the hostnames, and then send the data on to the HF.

If you absolutely must stick with windows, there are quite a few options. For instance, here's a list of nearly a dozen free syslog servers. I find it interesting that all syslog servers for windows seem to come with some sort of a UI to "display" the data, which isn't a feature you need. Still, any one of those should work - given that you check if they support multiple UDP ports.

If you have more choices, a virtual machine running Ubuntu/CentOS with syslog-ng would also work. I've done decent enough syslog receiving on 1 GB of RAM and 1 CPU though obviously your mileage may vary. For the configuration, I believe you simply add multiple source lines, as per syslog-ng's docs. I've done it before and it seemed relatively straightforward. I DO believe you have to use a fairly current version of syslog-ng, like later in the 3.x series.

I checked out each syslog server, however, none of them support multiple UDP ports. Hence, as an alternative to solution to this, I have decided to change the architecture by having all logs sent to the Heavy forwarders instead of syslog server and from there, forward logs to syslog server as well, in addition to the Indexer. That way, I can reduce the risk of data loss.

Please suggest if there could be any drawbacks for this method ?

I've configured the firewall to report to a syslog server but nothing comes through. I've tried disabling the firewall on the desktop/server and still nothing is reported from the Sophos firewall. I've also use the servers built in test message to verify it is working.

TCPDUMP was surprisingly easy to use. I ran it and do see entries for port 514 though I can't tell if they are UDP or TCP. Just to be sure, I set the port in Kiwi to both 514 udp and tcp and still I see nothing in Kiwi syslog. I turned off the computer firewall. I don't think it is an issue with Sophos. I give up.

If you can check this document here. Try with different facility option available. Also, the Device will produce logs in the selected format. Currently, the device can only produce logs in its own standard format i.e. DeviceStandardFormat.

Kiwi Syslog Server is an application designed for allowing users to store syslog messages that they receive from other network devices, also providing a number of options for processing the received messages. The syslog messages that enter the Kiwi Syslog Server can arrive from a variety of sources, such as Unix and Linux hosts, switches, routers, and other similar devices.

Visualizing the received messages is very easy as the program displays them on the main screen. Along with them, it includes a detailed set of information on each message, including the date when the message was received, its time, and the hostname. Another appreciable aspect of the application is the fact that each message is filtered through a number of rules, which you may either leave as defined by default or modify according to what relevant information you wish to receive. Once a message has been processed through all the rules, it is passed and listed on the main screen, where you will be notified by a series of alerts that you may predefine.

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