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andrius8
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Reading Syslog from MT

Wed May 20, 2020 9:55 pm

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?

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Re: Reading Syslog from MT

Thu May 21, 2020 11:30 am

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
 
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Re: Reading Syslog from MT

Thu May 21, 2020 2:12 pm

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.
 
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Re: Reading Syslog from MT

Thu May 21, 2020 2:35 pm

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
 
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Re: Reading Syslog from MT

Thu May 21, 2020 4:20 pm

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?
 
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Re: Reading Syslog from MT  [SOLVED]

Fri May 22, 2020 1:01 am

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?
Dude uses the RouterOS logging functions to store the syslog captured.
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Topic used is "dude", action as you like (e.g. writing to disk).
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Re: Reading Syslog from MT

Fri May 22, 2020 11:07 am

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

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