Action - Forward to another host

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This will forward the received message to another Syslog host using the UDP or TCP syslog protocol.


Destination IP address or hostname

This is where you specify the remote host IP address or hostname to forward the messages to.

You can send messages to multiple hosts by separating each hostname or IP address with a comma.

For example: Myhost.com, SecondHost.net, 203.75.21.3


Protocol

Syslog messages can be sent using UDP (default), TCP, or KRDP.

The Kiwi Reliable Delivery Protocol (KRDP) works between two Kiwi Syslog Daemons to reliably deliver syslog messages over a TCP transport.


New Port

This specifies the port number to send the message to. Recommended values are:
UDP:    Port 514
TCP:   Port 1468 or port 601
KRDP:   Port 1468


New Facility/New Level

This allows you to force all outgoing messages to use a new Facility or Level. In most cases this option should be set to "- No change -". This will forward messages with the same Facility and Level that they arrived with.


KRDP connection identifier

This specifies the unique name assigned to the KRDP connection. Each connection between the source and destination syslog daemon needs to be identified. When the connection is broken and re-established, the sequence numbers can be exchanged and any lost messages can be resent. A separate set of message sequence numbers are kept against each connection identifier.

Examples are: Source:RemoteOffice1 or SyslogDaemon1

The string of text used will uniquely identify the source of the connection to the destination syslog daemon.

If you have more than one "Forward to another host" action configured, you can use the same connection identifier on all actions. This will mean that only a single KRDP connection is made between the source and destination syslog daemons. If you specify a different connection identifier, multiple KRDP sessions will be created.

To ensure that the identifier is unique, we recommend the use of the %MACAddress variable. This variable will be replaced by the first MAC address of the machine.

Examples are: Source:RemoteOffice1-%MACAddress
When running, the ID would look like: Source:RemoteOffice1-AA-BB-CC-DD-EE-FF-00
The MAC Address is globally unique to each network card.


Send with RFC3164 header information

This will add the standard RFC3164 header information to the outgoing message. The format is:

<Priority>Date Hostname PID Message text

The Priority is a value between 0 and 191
The Date is in the format of Mmm DD HH:NN:SS (July 4 12:44:39). Note there is no year specified.
The PID is a program identifier up to 32 characters in length


Retain the original source address of the message

Normally, the syslog protocol is unable to maintain the original senders address when forwarding/relaying syslog messages. This is because the senders address is taken from the received UDP or TCP packet.

The way Kiwi Syslog gets around this problem is to place tags in the message text that contains the original senders address. By default, the tags looks like Original Address=192.168.1.1. That is, the "Original Address=" tag, followed by the IP address, followed by a space delimiter.

These tags are only inserted if the "Retain the original source address of the message" option is checked.

These tags can also be overidden by way of two registry settings, named OriginalAddressStartTag and OriginalAddressEndTag.
For more information on overiding the default originating address start and end tags, please see - Originating Address - Custom Start and End tags

Note: If the "Spoof Network Packet" option is used, then the "Original Address=" tag will not be used. The Syslog packet will be fowarded to the destination address as though it has been sent from the originating IP address.

Use a fixed source IP address

This option will use a fixed IP address in the Original Address= tag. This can be useful when you want to identify all outgoing messages as from a particular host. For example, if you have many remote syslog daemons sending messages to one central location. If each of the remote syslogs use the 10.0.0.x address range, all the received messages will appear from the same host. Specifying a different source IP address for each remote syslog could help in identifying the incoming messages better.

Note: If the "Spoof Network Packet" option is used, then the "Original Address=" tag will not be used. The Syslog packet will be fowarded to the destination address as though it has been sent from the specified fixed IP address.

Spoof Network Packet
This feature is only available in the licensed version, requires WinPcap 3.0+ installation, Windows 2000/XP/2003 Only

This option only applies to syslog messages forwarded via UDP protocol.
The network packet will be spoofed to appear as though the fowarded message has come directly from the originating devices' IP address, and not the address of the Syslog Server. Kiwi Syslog Daemon will use the Selected Network Adapter to send the spoofed UDP/IP packet.

Important Note:

Spoofing network packets in Kiwi Syslog Daemon is only supported on the following platforms: Windows 2000/XP/2003 (Window 95/98/Me/Vista not supported). This option also requires that WinPcap version 3.0 and above is installed. WinPcap (Windows Packet Capture library) is available for download from: WinPcap, The Packet Capture and Network Monitoring Library for Windows

Test button

Use the Test button to send a test Syslog message to the host(s) specified.