Kiwi Syslog Daemon
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A Freeware Syslog Daemon for Windows

Program copyright 1998 - 2007 Kiwi Enterprises. All rights reserved.

Latest version available from: www.kiwisyslog.com

Support: http://www.kiwisyslog.com/support/


Kiwi Syslog Daemon receives syslog messages from network devices, and displays them in real-time.

Syslog messages can then be processed using events like:
·Display the message in the scrolling window  
·Logging the message to a text file  
·Forward the message to another syslog daemon  
·Log to an ODBC database  
·Log to the NT Application Event Log  
·E-mail the message to someone via SMTP  
·Triggering a sound alarm  
·Running an external program such as a paging notification system  
·Send an SNMP Trap message  
·Page someone using NotePager Pro  
 

Actions can be performed on received messages. Messages can be filtered by host name, host IP address, priority, message text or time of day.


The installation package allows you to install Kiwi Syslog Daemon in one of two ways:

·As a Windows Service for use on Windows NT4, Windows 2000, Windows XP or Windows 2003  
·As a Standard interactive Windows application for use of Windows 95,98,ME,NT4,2000,XP or 2003  

The Standard application runs interactively and only operates while a user is logged on to the system.

The Service runs as an automatic Windows NT service. Installing Kiwi Syslog Daemon as a service means that a user does not need to be logged on to the system for Kiwi Syslog Daemon to operate.

The Kiwi Syslog Service Manager program provides the interface to configure and manage the Windows NT service.


The BSD Syslog protocol is defined in RFC 3164.
http://community.roxen.com/developers/idocs/rfc/rfc3164.html

For a comprehensive description of the syslog protocol, see:
www.sans.org/infosecFAQ/unix/syslog.htm