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Sherilyn Peacher
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.
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.
I too would like to know if this issue has been resolved, and if so what was done. We are logging so many messages Kiwi keeps stopping. We are required to log these messages because of audit regulations and we have multiple firewalls logging to this one server. If Kiwi cannot keep up does anyone have any other suggestions since we have to log these messages.
However, STOPs have happened back to version 7.2. And we push our servers ridiculously hard. The highest count I've seen lately was 208 million messages in 24 hours. The server handled it fine, no messages lost.
The diagnostics 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.
Kiwi Syslog Server is a syslog server for the Windows platform. It receives syslog messages and SNMP traps from network devices such as routers, switches, and firewalls. You can choose the newer recommended version, or the legacy version.
While all these links tell about installing a forwarder, we can directly use the feature in our kiwi syslog to forward logs to our splunk on any of the TCP port, which we can later configure in our splunk as well.
I wouldn't recommend that solution. You'd have to create multiple ports if you want to classify the data differently. With the forwarder that's easy, just create multiple monitor stanzas. The forwarder handles failures much better as well. A bare TCP listener won't properly handle loadbalancing across multiple Splunk servers nor will it gracefully handle connection failures.
I have recently been tasked with setting up a SolarWinds Kiwi Syslog Server and forwarding an intranets IIS logs to it. At this point I have managed to get some logs to forward over by setting the log files to write to both the log file and as an ETW event. From there I used SolarWinds Event Log Forwarder to forward applications events to the Kiwi server. This has worked well for some of the logs but, unfortunately, only seems to forward a fraction of the logs that are written to the files.
At this point I am beginning to think its a dead end to continue down this particular path, So I wanted to ask if anybody else has experience with programs that can forward IIS logs to a syslog and what programs you would recommend.
We have a Linux box running the SDN services and acting as a Gateway. The vendor who provided this Linux box says that the have a restriction that it can forward the Syslog messages to only one Syslog server / collector.
We are filtering incoming messages in our Kiwi server to catch specific error conditions, successfully wrote a filter to meet our needs, wrote a trap to forward the message to our Orion server, but we want to have the original ip address (preferably the server name) in the message forwarded to the Orion server, not the ip address of the Kiwi server. In the trap the "Forward SNMP Trap without changing" and "Retain original source address of the SNMP Trap" are set. Are their any other Kiwi settings or actions that can be done to get the originating server address forwarded to the Orion server, not the address of the Kiwi server?
I've tried removing and reinstalling Kiwi with SQL Server Compact 4 pre-installed, but the install wizard wouldn't detect version 4 and insisted on installing 3.5 SP2. I'll try tinkering with the install and checking the vendor who makes the web server but I gotta ask, "Has anyone out there been able to swap out SQL Compact 3.5 SP2 for version 4 or something higher?"
I just installed kiwi syslog 9.5, I would like to have log actions to a sql database. I have created the table but the syslog server won't log the traffic to the database,when I click the test button the syslogd service stops. It does this every time, how do I make this syslog server log to the database?
We have a very heavily utilized LEM with a "farm" of KiWi syslog servers sitting behind a load balancer. When ever we change the rule on one KiWi server, we need to manually export the rule and import it to the KiWi servers.
I could not get my sonicwall NSA2400 to log to a syslog server. I used Kiwi 9.4.1 Free version and no matter what i did it would not log the messages. I followed the steps in the following article with no luck
A syslog server is a logging server that allows for the centralized collection of syslog messages, known as events, from a variety of networking devices such as routers, switches, and firewalls, in addition to servers running a variety of operating systems.
Universal log collection and routing
syslog-ng flexibly routes log data from X sources to Y destinations. Instead of deploying multiple agents on hosts, organizations can unify their log data collection and management.
Secure data archive
syslog-ng Store Box provides automated archiving, tamper-proof encrypted storage, granular access controls to protect log data. The largest appliance can store up to 10TB of raw logs.
SolarWinds Kiwi Syslog Server is ranked 31st in Log Management with 4 reviews while syslog-ng is ranked 17th in Log Management with 5 reviews. SolarWinds Kiwi Syslog Server is rated 7.8, while syslog-ng is rated 8.6. The top reviewer of SolarWinds Kiwi Syslog Server writes "Reliable, straightforward deployment, with good management and filters". On the other hand, the top reviewer of syslog-ng writes "Consistent in delivering data, stable, and scalable". SolarWinds Kiwi Syslog Server is most compared with SolarWinds Log Analyzer, Fortinet FortiAnalyzer, Graylog, Wazuh and ManageEngine EventLog Analyzer, whereas syslog-ng is most compared with Graylog, Grafana Loki, Fortinet FortiAnalyzer, Logstash and Elastic Security. See our SolarWinds Kiwi Syslog Server vs. syslog-ng report.
Most devices and software have a way to perform logging and even send logging information to a syslog server. Sending your logs to a syslog server is a great way to aggregate them in one place that can be monitored, which provides visibility into your environment as a whole.
In this review of SolarWinds Kiwi Syslog Server, we will take a look at a syslog server offering from SolarWinds that provides great features and functionality for managing syslog messages, SNMP traps, and even Windows event logs.
Kiwi Syslog Server is licensed according to the number of syslog server installations. Each installation of Kiwi Syslog Server is priced starting at $295 per server installation. The great thing about the Kiwi Syslog Server is that it supports an unlimited number of devices for syslog collection.
This pricing structure works out to be extremely economical since you can aggregate an unlimited number of devices that log to your Kiwi server. Many well-known syslog solutions charge you by the number of nodes you are monitoring or even the number of messages you are collecting. In comparison, the flat cost of the solution will work out very well for many.
After installing the Event Log Forwarder, I quickly started getting the defined Windows Event log events that were sent to the Kiwi Syslog Server. One feature I like is the ease with which you can search for specific events. In the search field, I am simply typing the name of my Windows server and these entries are instantly highlighted.
The power of having a single solution aggregating all the syslog messages in one location is that you can have a single centralized installation that monitors the messages and triggers off certain types of logs that come through. This allows you to automate notifications and other actions.
Overall, I found the SolarWinds Kiwi Syslog Server to be an easy-to-install, easy-to-use, solid solution for collecting event logs for most types of devices, including Windows Servers. It is a reasonably priced application that does what most will want in a syslog solution that offers a few notches above the normal basic features.
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