Hi There,
I'm trialing Kiwi Syslog and I'm having trouble with the Log Forwarder and Security Event Log. When I click on the Security Log I don't see Audit Success or Audit Failure as an event type. It just has Error, Warning and Information. If I manually edit the CFG file and add <int>16</int> it works, but then it gets overwritten if I make a change. Am I doing something wrong? How can I see Audit Failure as an Event Type?
Thanks,
Hi all.
I have just installed Kiwi Syslog Server 9.5 on a test machine to evaluate its suitability for a project I'm working on. It's currently still running in 14-day Evaluation mode.
We can't seem to get it to receive SNMP traps at all. No matter what we do, netstat shows nothing listening on UDP port 162. SNMPv1 traps are being sent to the server, and we can see them in Wireshark arriving at the server, but Kiwi isn't listening for them.
In desparation, we tried enabling the Windows SNMP Trap service (although we understand this isn't required?) and this 'absorbed' the traps, but nothing appeared in Kiwi.
The test machine is running Windows 7 (32-bit) with the Windows Firewall switched off.
Should the 14-day Evaluation be able to receive SNMP traps?
Thanks in advance for any advice!
Hi all,
New here, searched for discussions but found no entry on procurve switch(es).
The Procurve switches will not send any syslog messages (wiresharked the server)
Turned on logging on the switch: logging 'ip-address'
show debug
Debug Logging
Source IP Selection: Outgoing Interface
Destination:
Logging --
'ip-address' Kiwi Syslog server
Protocol = UDP
Port = 514
Facility = user
Severity = info
System Module = all-pass
Priority Desc =
tried facility 'syslog' still nothing.
Only the Procurve switches will not send any syslog messages.
Other devices such as Cisco ASA's work fine.
Anyone ideas to solve this?
TIA Jaap
Hello,
I just installed Syslog on a Windows 8 VM (ESXi 5.5).
However... I don't received any message from the router (Cisco RV042G) I want to log.
I tried the generic troubleshhoting :
• Check network connectivity by pinging from the sending device to the Syslog Server machine => OK
• Check only one instance of Kiwi Syslog Server is running (Ctrl-Shift-Esc to get the task-list) => OK, only one
• Disable any personal firewall software such as ZoneAlarm or BlackIce => Disabled
• Use a sniffer to check if messages from the routing are reaching the PC => Yes, I can see them
• Check DNS resolution is working as expected by pinging a hostname from the Command Prompt => OK
• Check that there is a "Display" action setup for the facility and level you are expecting to receive messages on. => OK
• Send a test message to yourself by pressing Ctrl+T => Displayed
• Download a copy of the Free Syslog Server Message Generator (SyslogGen) from: www.kiwisyslog.com/downloads => Done
• Install SyslogGen and set it to send a message every second to the address 127.0.0.1 (local host). => Not displayed, and I don't see them in a local packet capture.
• Try sending messages with SyslogGen from another machine to the host running the Syslog Server => Not displayed, but see them on a packet capture (on Syslog PC)
Do you have any idea about the cause of this issue ?
Thanks in advance for your help.
Prior to receiving syslogs from the 5 devices (this is the limit in the free version) they will need to added under Setup\Inputs section. See below:
Hello,
I have an issue with the migration of my kiwi syslog product.
I have got a new server and I want to migrate my kiwi syslog version on this new server (after deactivating it on the old one).
When I read the documentation it is said to install the licence manager tool.
But when I use it, the tool says "No licensed solarwinds products on your machine".
But my two products are well registered and I can see the licenses on my online account.
Is it possible to deactivate them manually ?
Thanks for your helpsyslog
I have a Cisco ASA 5505 that is setup to send syslogs to a remote syslog server.
I have kiwi syslog (free) installed on a Windows 2003 R2 Server and it is listening on UDP port 514. The syslog server also is my Ciscoworks v3.2 server.
I can ONLY see the Ciscoworks log files and not the ASA. I only want to display the ASA log files.
I have googled, read the user guide, and search the forum and cannot find any procedure that I can tweak Kiwi to log the syslog files from my ASA which is being used as a VPN concentrator.
Any ideas?
Hi community. I ve searched about my problem but only found topics related about Orin software. I am getting an exception in Kiwi Syslog Web Access. Status Code 500. Any one have experienced this issue ? Thanks a lot.
Exception of type 'System.Web.HttpUnhandledException' was thrown.
Status Code: 500
System.Web.HttpUnhandledException: Exception of type 'System.Web.HttpUnhandledException' was thrown. ---> System.ArgumentOutOfRangeException: 'capacity' must be non-negative.
Parameter name: capacity
at System.Collections.ArrayList..ctor(Int32 capacity)
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at _Event.Render(HtmlTextWriter writer)
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at System.Web.UI.Control.RenderChildren(HtmlTextWriter writer)
at System.Web.UI.Page.Render(HtmlTextWriter writer)
at _Event.Render(HtmlTextWriter writer)
at System.Web.UI.Control.RenderControlInternal(HtmlTextWriter writer, ControlAdapter adapter)
at System.Web.UI.Control.RenderControl(HtmlTextWriter writer, ControlAdapter adapter)
at System.Web.UI.Control.RenderControl(HtmlTextWriter writer)
at Telerik.Web.UI.RadAjaxControl.RenderPageInAjaxMode(HtmlTextWriter writer, Control page)
at System.Web.UI.Control.RenderChildrenInternal(HtmlTextWriter writer, ICollection children)
at System.Web.UI.Control.RenderChildren(HtmlTextWriter writer)
at System.Web.UI.Page.Render(HtmlTextWriter writer)
at _Event.Render(HtmlTextWriter writer)
at System.Web.UI.Control.RenderControlInternal(HtmlTextWriter writer, ControlAdapter adapter)
at System.Web.UI.Control.RenderControl(HtmlTextWriter writer, ControlAdapter adapter)
at System.Web.UI.Control.RenderControl(HtmlTextWriter writer)
at System.Web.UI.Page.ProcessRequestMain(Boolean includeStagesBeforeAsyncPoint, Boolean includeStagesAfterAsyncPoint)
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at System.Web.UI.Page.HandleError(Exception e)
at System.Web.UI.Page.ProcessRequestMain(Boolean includeStagesBeforeAsyncPoint, Boolean includeStagesAfterAsyncPoint)
at System.Web.UI.Page.ProcessRequest(Boolean includeStagesBeforeAsyncPoint, Boolean includeStagesAfterAsyncPoint)
at System.Web.UI.Page.ProcessRequest()
at System.Web.UI.Page.ProcessRequestWithNoAssert(HttpContext context)
at System.Web.UI.Page.ProcessRequest(HttpContext context)
at ASP.events_aspx.ProcessRequest(HttpContext context)
at System.Web.HttpApplication.CallHandlerExecutionStep.System.Web.HttpApplication.IExecutionStep.Execute()
at System.Web.HttpApplication.ExecuteStep(IExecutionStep step, Boolean& completedSynchronously)
Resource: http://localhost:8088/Events.aspx
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Click here to return to the previous page Click here to return to the login page
I am setting up a kiwi syslog server. Running into a problem with the filtering not working the way I would expect. I have used Kiwi but that was several years ago. I have setup a display for a specific switch and have tried several different filter possibilities but still getting syslog messages on the display that dont belong to the switch I am trying to watch.
I have tried a ip address - simple filter with the ip address of the switch "10.1.1.2". On the cisco switch, I have used the command logging source-interface vlan 254 which should send out the syslog messages using the ip address in the simple filter I setup. I have also tried the hostname option with the hostname of the switch "Switch1" but same problem.
It has got to be something simple but so far I havent found the problem. Since this is the free version, I know I cant call Solar Winds support.
Any suggestions are appreciated.
Ron
SolarWinds's own Justin Finley just recorded a video tutorial that shows how to split logs into multiple files by IP address and date in Kiwi Syslog Server. Specifically, this syslog server tutorial shows how to store logs in separate folders for each source IP address, and then shows how to keep separate log files for each day within those folders. (e.g., "D:\logs\192.168.000.001\Log2012-07-13.txt")
External link to Jing: autosplit - justinfinley's library
Video Guide:
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How many messages per hour can the syslog server reliably handle per hour or per second before dropping / skipping / missing messages and failing to trigger alerts?
I'm trying to forward events from Kiwi Syslog to QRadar SIEM.
In Kiwi Syslog setup, I created an Action: Forward to another host; gave it the QRadar appliance's IP as the Destination IP; selected "Retain the original source address of the message"; clicked the Test button to verify the configuration and got a gree checkmark.
The test event was the only event received by the QRadar. None of the events I'm forwarding have been received as incoming logs on QRadar.
I've tried this with and without adding the Kiwi Syslog servers as log sources in QRadar.
Do I need to install a universal DSM on the Kiwi Syslog servers?
I have written a perl script to take data from Kiwi, parse out some information and pass it into our Palo Alto UserID agent. It runs fine when I pass the message in on the command line but when I have kiwi run it (so to pull the data from kiwi) it fails with an error:
Error Info: invalid charater on line 1
My script looks like this:
sub Main() {
use PAN::API;
$string = Fields.VarCleanMessageText;
$SERVER = '127.0.0.1';
#Extract user and IP from string
if ($string =~ /(\w+)([.+]|(\s))(\w+)(\s|\+|.)(\d+\.\d+\.\d+\.\d+)/) {
$delim = ($3 eq "+") ? " " : $3;
$username = "$1\\$2$delim$5";
$ip_address = $7;
}
print "$username : $ip_address \n";
# Create User ID API connection
$uid=PAN::API::UID->new($SERVER);
#Post data to agent
$uid->add('login',$name,$address);
$uid->submit();
return "OK"; #return value for Kiwi
}
Thanks for any guidance.
Kevin
SolarWinds's own Justin Finley just recorded a video tutorial that shows how to split logs into multiple displays in Kiwi Syslog Server.
External link to Jing: Multiple Displays - justinfinley's library
Video Guide:
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Hello , kiwi friends!
I am trying to get Kiwi syslog 9.4 to work on windows server 2012 64bit but having problems with the service crashing then i try to start the kiwi syslog server console.
I have applied the kb fix for Microsoft .Net Framework 2 , before that i couldnt install kiwi syslog successfully becuse the service could not start.
http://knowledgebase.solarwinds.com/kb/questions/4386/
I have the following errors in the windows event viewer!
Error 7000: The Kiwi Syslog Server service failed to start due to the following error:
The service did not respond to the start or control request in a timely fashion
Error 7009 : A timeout was reached (30000 milliseconds) while waiting for the Kiwi Syslog Server service to connect.
Do you have a solution for this or could it be a new bug in windows server 2012 and the old dot net framework combined ?
Thanks in advance.
I am trying to connect to kiwi syslog server in secure TCP mode. From my client side (c# code) I try to connect to kiwi syslog sever using TLS 1.2 protocol. But SSL Handshake from server is set to TLS 1.0
I installed kiwi server in Windows 7 SP1 and enabled TLS 1.2 in the system by modifying the system registry.
SSL handshakes captured using Network monitor are given below
Client HandShake
Server HandShake
Client side code( c#)
System.Net.ServicePointManager.SecurityProtocol = SecurityProtocolType.Tls12;
var tcpClient = new TcpClient(hostname, port);
var tcpClientStream = tcpClient.GetStream();
var sslStream = new SslStream(tcpClientStream, false, ValidateServerCertificate)
{
ReadTimeout = timeout,
WriteTimeout = timeout
};
sslStream.AuthenticateAsClient(hostname, new X509CertificateCollection(), System.Security.Authentication.SslProtocols.Tls12, false);
Hello all, I was wondering if you had any tips for connecting my FreeNAS to the Kiwi Syslog server I have in place? I have the IP address of the Windows server entered in properly and still have 514 as the port on the server. I have verified there are no other processes using that port. Does anyone have any suggestions on what steps to take next to get them talking?
Hi guys, my boss has asked me to consider moving our syslogging services to PRTG syslog. I am very happy with Kiwi Syslog and don't want to migrate.
I want to come up with a list of reasons why this is not a good idea i.e. what things KiwiSyslog does better.
Can someone who is familiar with both of these packages assist me.
Thanks kindly for any help.
Hi,
i never used syslog servers and i would like to setup a logging system for my meraki mr32 devices.
I tried to setup myself Kiwi with the mr32 but with no success.
Can someone help?
Hi
i am installing syslog in my server room to monitor the log in/log out operations on serers... i installed log forwarder on some windows server 2003 servers and everithig is ok but now i installed it on some windows server 2012 and all the messages that i receive from these servers are like this :''06-08-2015 17:03:47 Kernel.Info 172.19.12.119 giu 08 17.03.47 srv-av.astergenova.it MSWinEventLog 6 Application 127 lun giu 08 17.03.41 2015 1003 Microsoft-Windows-Security-SPP N/A Information srv-av.astergenova.it 0 The description for Event ID 1003 from source Microsoft-Windows-Security-SPP cannot be found. Either the component that raises this event is not installed on your local computer or the installation is corrupted. You can install or repair the component on the local computer.If the event originated on another computer, the display information had to be saved with the event.The following information was included with the event: 55c92734-d682-4d71-983e-d6ec3f16059f. FormatMessage failed with error 15100, The resource loader failed to find MUI file."
do you have idea of how to fix this? syslogger is installed on a xp machine but i also tried to install it on a windows 2012 server machine and nothing changed