Reading Syslog from MT

RouterOS The Dude
1

Hi,
Can anyone provide some insight how does syslog work on MT.
I have Dude configured to accept syslog and it is not forwarding them to remote syslog server. I am pointing my devices to MT to dump syslogs. When I connect with Dude to MT I can see messages under Logs from my devices. Where does MT stores syslog messages? Can I read the messages directly from MT without using Dude?

Thanks

2

Have you enabled remote logging?

Example:

/system logging action
set remote remote=192.168.xxx.xxx
/system logging
add action=remote topics=info
add action=remote topics=warning
add action=remote topics=error
add action=remote topics=critical
3

Why do I need to set remote logging?
I do not want MT to send logs to remote syslog server. I want MT to act as syslogs server. It actually does already as messages are being logged and stored. I just need to find where and how to access them. This is the part that I am missing.

4

If you have enabled ssh, you could execute “/log print follow” command over an ssh connection.
In UNIX terminal:

ssh username@IP /log print follow
5

Thanks for input.
This prints the output that I see in Log but unfortunately I do not see syslog messages in the log only MT logs. It could be that I missed but is there a way to get syslog messages in Logs?

6

Dude uses the RouterOS logging functions to store the syslog captured.
http://forum.mikrotik.com/t/mikrotik-user-log-server-need/139561/1

Topic used is “dude”, action as you like (e.g. writing to disk).
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The file is plain text and can be downloaded (or read while written? , didn’t test!) . I open it with PSPad or other text editor.
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7

Thank you very much. This is exactly what I needed.
I was looking for syslog topic but it is dude(logical)