This drop down list allows you to select the message text to send. You can replace the text with any message text you want to send. Just type over the existing text.
Ready made messages:
The following 'canned' messages are available:
This is a test message generated by Kiwi SyslogGen
The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog
ALL YOUR BASE ARE BELONG TO US*
*http://www.planettribes.com/allyourbase/index.shtml
This is Syslog test message number ####
This sends sequenced messages that allow you to see if a message has been missed at the receiving Syslog Daemon.
Kiwi Syslog Daemon automatically looks for this sequenced message text and will beep if a message is missed.
Message numbers start at 1 and go to 999999. They then start back at 1 again.
To reset the sequence number back to 1, press the 'Reset counters' button.
Test user connected to website…
Test user connected to website http://###.###.###.###/index.html
This will generate a random IP address in place of the hashes. This can be used to test the DNS resolution options of the Syslog Daemon.
MultiLine text message
When this option is selected, a popup window will ask you to enter a multi line text message. Normally Syslog messages should only contain a single line of text so they can be read easily. When a multi line message is sent, each line is terminated with a carriage return and line feed.
Random string of text
This generates a random length message of random text characters. This is useful to see if the Syslog Daemon is capable of displaying all the random information.
From tab delimited text file
When this option is selected you can specify the text file to read from by pressing the … button.
The text file is expected to be a tab delimited text file created by Kiwi Syslog Daemon.
The fields should be:
Date Time <TAB> Priority <TAB> Hostname <TAB> Message text
Only the 4th field (Message text) is used, all other fields are ignored. This is useful for replaying messages already received by Kiwi Syslog Daemon.
From a Hex byte code text file. (One packet per line)
When this option is selected you can specify the text file to read from by pressing the … button.
The text file is expected to contain a series of 2 digit hexadecimal values separated by a space. Each line represents a separate message. Each line must begin with the string "HEX=" followed by the hexadecimal characters.
For example:
HEX=31 32 33 41 42 43
This will be sent out as "123abc"
From a Ethereal capture file
When this option is selected you can specify the text file to read from by pressing the … button.
Kiwi SyslogGen will scan the Ethereal capture file for any UDP syslog messages sent to port 514. Each valid syslog message found will be sent sequentially. When the last message in the file is sent, it will loop back to the beginning of the file and start again.
More information on Ethereal can be found at: www.ethereal.com
If you check the option called "Send message with no priority code", the messages will be sent using the priority value found in the capture file. With this option unchecked, the priority value will be what ever is set in the GUI options.