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Does KiwiSyslog server read syslogs from a file from the disk of local machine?

dipsilon.solutions

I want Kiwi Syslog component to read log files from disk. How can I configure it?

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LGarvin

I don't believe that it can read direct from disk, but you can have the local machine send to Kiwi.

For a Windows machine you'll also want to install the Kiwi Log Forwarder for Windows

kstone

The Log Forwarder only works with event logs, it can't read files from disk. You can use NxLog(http://nxlog.org) or Logstash(http://logstash.net) to send local files to syslog.

Aforsythe

dipsilon.solutions@yahoo.com This can easily be done, and I'm actually using the script linked here and a script based on the one linked here to do the same thing on multiple machines...

You can find a script written to read Kiwi's own log file from the local drive and generate syslog messages here: Forwarding Kiwi Syslog Server errors via syslog

It provides an excellent example of reading log files as they change. If you're feeling spunky, you can do the same with vbScript, or whatever poision you pick on a remote machine and then use one of the many command line utilities (I use Klog) to ship these errors over UDP 514. Or... Ship them over whatever TCP/UDP port you specify in Kiwi.