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The inventory file is a file that we can use to group our servers into certain groups. This can be done by simply typing the group name inside square brackets. For instance [nxlog_servers].
The NXLog service can be started from the Services console (Run services.msc) or will be started automatically at the next boot. Alternatively, the service can be started by executing nxlog.exe, located in the installation directory. The -f command line argument can be used to run NXLog in the foreground.
By default, NXLog will write its own messages to the log file named nxlog.log in the data directory. If you have trouble starting or running NXLog, then you should check this file for errors.
prevously we using syslog server to centralize log, and when we have more server and network we can not put all those log into syslog server that store data in mysql, it perform slow search and not report correctly,
i have try spend sometime to search and i found graylog, i try to setup a few day until success because its new related to elastic search, but finally i find out and keep using until now, its around 3 years already since i use graylog server to monitor all the network activity, monitoring server with nxlog agent, monitor cisco switch with syslog, linux with syslog, and can monitor the radius authentication log, each time users plug the network or connect wifi log generated and sent to graylog-server, and graylog server create alert message send by telegram to system admin.
- Graylog is very powerful log, i have search around 50million of record in 3second only, very powerful log because it integrated with elastic search that perform log search very fast.
- Telegram alert notification is what i like, i create the rule to let it send notification to telegram so i know what is going on on the network/server log.
- enterprise license are free for one year, and make sure your traffic log not hit to 5GB/day.
- support various log protocol, nxlog from windows, syslog from linux, and other such as aws. but i use only nxlog and syslog only.