Configuring an external syslog server
This recipe describes how to configure pfSense to use an external logging server.
Getting ready
To configure pfSense to use a separate server for logging, we obviously need a separate logging server to accomplish this. The following sections describe how to create a syslog server on each of the major operating systems.
How to do it...
- Browse to Status | System Logs.
- Click the Settings tab.
- Check Enable syslog'ing to remote syslog server.
- Enter the IP address(es) of our external syslog servers.
- Check the types of events to be logged.
- Save the changes.
- Apply changes, if necessary.
How it works...
Once configured, pfSense ...
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