Remote Syslog Server - Why And How
Any modern environments consist of multiple layers each of which contains multiple components. There are switches and routers, firewalls, physical server, application servers, applications themselves and, of course, users. Each of the components has logs of more than one kind, location and severity. All the components interact with each other directly or indirectly. I am certain you have found yourself in a situation where to establish a root cause you had to inspect logs of more than one entity. Establishing a timeline of events is always easier when the sources of the events’ clocks are synchronised and are located in one central location. While the clocks are handled by the NTP the centralised logs location is a syslog server or in this case a remote syslog server implying that it is separate to the origination of the logs. In addition to the benefits already mentioned, remote syslog server allows to access logs for the systems that are already dead, decommissioned or replaced. Nuta
