Open the configuration file on your favorite editor (in this case, we’re using vi): The steps to configure the syslog forwarding are:Īpplications - Utilities - Terminal, or by using the Spotlight (shortcut: command+space > Terminal)Ģ.ěefore touching anything, make a backup copy of the syslog configuration file (nf) into the /tmp folder: The next steps are to be executed in a Terminal window, the Mac OS X command line interface. Its also worth noting that Mac OS X will simple forward all syslog data as a single source, not separating data by log file like the Universal Forwarder does. (b.) allow incoming traffic through this port on all firewalls in place between the Mac OS X and the Splunk server - including the Windows Firewall, if that’s the case. (a.) receive data inputs on UDP port 514, and It is worth mentioning that in order to capture events forwarded by Mac OS X (or any other syslog forwarder, actually) you have to configure the Splunk server to:
But it doesn’t need to be installed for just monitoring syslog generated events.
Splunk has a Mac OS X version that allows for a better and more complete monitoring of the system and syslog events, it can also be installed and configured as a forwarder to your central monitoring server. It is simple yet functional, but not very friendly on displaying the entries and actually finding some useful information. Mac OS X Console.app (Applications - Utilities - Console.app) is the standard interface to visualize all events registered by the operating system. The following configuration steps were tested and validated on a MacBook Pro running Mac OS X 10.6.2 (Snow Leopard).
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This tutorial shows how to configure Mac OS X to forward syslog events to a remote server.
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