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I have my D-link router which can forward its logs to a syslog server. Now, I do not have any syslog server. Hence, I want to make my Windows machine a syslog server to get those logs from the D-link router.

Post that, I want to forward these logs (collected from D-link router) to my SIEM (Centralized Log Management) platform.

Can somebody help me on this?

asked Dec 30, 2016 at 9:59

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People in comment told me that I MUST to answer to you question:

Can somebody help me on this?

Let then follow community rules and fill technical question with bureaucracy :( My answer is - yes, I will try to help you :)

Well, there are few choices, you can run syslog "natively" under windows by installing cygwin. Select syslog on installation. Run syslog as Windows service. (Use this documentation but setup syslog as a service instead of SSH) Other way, you can install some guest unix based operation system in virtual machine, such as VirtualBox or native Windows virtual machine and run inside of it syslog server that will be accessible by you router over network. Not so long ago I provided a help how to setup syslog, so it can accept connection from a network, look it here: https://superuser.com/a/945570/164837 On the router side, just point to IP address where syslog is running.

answered Dec 30, 2016 at 10:12
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  • Could you please show me, how to answer to the question (actually asked): "Can somebody help me on this?" Do you really think I should answer: "Yes, I can" :) Commented Dec 31, 2016 at 20:32
  • As about "Your answer should include all relevant information within your answer." - I thought I gave all information needed how to run syslog under windows. If you know any other RELIABLE and CONVENIENT way how to do that, I would appreciate if you will share it with us. If you don't know what syslog is, just ask, and I will try to explain it to you, but don't expect me to be a google who serves multiple relevant content for free. I trying to answer precisely instead of staffing answer with ALL relevant info. I really don't get it, are you expecting a course about operation systems? Commented Dec 31, 2016 at 21:11
  • What else should be detailed? I gave a link to all documentation needed to achieve what OP is asking. And this info would be actual even over time, since official gygwin provider will keep this info up to dated. No, really, could you please help me to understand what do you mean. This is pretty simple, download, answer a question on install and that is it. If there would be some misunderstanding it is better to ask again. I pretty sure that rephrasing official documentation here is bad help Commented Dec 31, 2016 at 21:18
  • Your answer by itself does not answer the author's question. Commented Dec 31, 2016 at 21:27
  • Thanks for helping me to understand better requirement of this site. Commented Dec 31, 2016 at 21:33

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