Crap... I'm sorry. Noobish indeed. Didn't even realized there was a
separate group. I'll post it over there. Thanks!
On Wednesday, November 12, 2014 9:14:34 AM UTC-6, Andrew Stacey wrote:
>
> This is probably a very noobish question. I just starting playing with an
> ELK stack I have set up on Centos 7. All the core services seem to be
> working but I can't seem to get it to receive syslog messages. I have both
> selinux and the firewall turned off (just a local lab right now). Netstat
> -nlp does not show anything listening on port 514.
>
> According to the logstash book, I need to add the following syslog input
> plugin
>
> syslog {
> type => syslog
> port => 5514
> }
>
>
> in /etc/logstash/conf.d/central.conf but that file does not exist on my
> machine. The only files in that directory are named
> 01-lumberjack-input.conf. 10-syslog.conf, and 30-lumberjack-output.conf.
> Looking inside those three, it does not look like putting anything there
> will help, though I did try adding the above code in the
> 01-lumberjack-input.conf to no affect.
>
> Before I wasted a ton of time overlooking something simple, does anyone
> who has set up logstash see what piece I am missing to enable to receipt of
> syslog entries? I have two device trying to send the data, one a sonicwall
> firewall, the other is just a windows machine using nxlog. The nxlog.log
> file throws the following error:
>
> ERROR couldn't connect to tcp socket on 10.1.10.154:514; No connection
> could be made because the target machine actively refused it.
>
> So I am sure I am at least sending some data to Logstash. I'm sure it is
> something simple I missed but for the life of me just can't see it.
>
>
>
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