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...

  1. Browse to Status | System Logs.
  2. Click the Settings tab.
  3. Check Enable syslog'ing to remote syslog server.
  4. Enter the IP address(es) of our external syslog servers.
  5. Check the types of events to be logged.
    How to do it...
  6. Save the changes.
  7. Apply changes, if necessary.

How it works...

Once configured, pfSense ...

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