{"id":11062,"date":"2022-07-18T12:39:24","date_gmt":"2022-07-18T02:39:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nsrd.info\/blog\/?p=11062"},"modified":"2022-07-18T12:39:27","modified_gmt":"2022-07-18T02:39:27","slug":"using-syslog-in-powerprotect-data-manager","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nsrd.info\/blog\/2022\/07\/18\/using-syslog-in-powerprotect-data-manager\/","title":{"rendered":"Using syslog in PowerProtect Data Manager"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>As I mentioned in an earlier post, PowerProtect Data Manager 19.11 introduces support for remote syslog servers, allowing you to collate all your Data Manager logging in your tool of choice.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>To configure this feature, you can go to <strong>Settings &gt; Logs<\/strong>:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/nsrd.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/Setings-Logs.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2256\" height=\"1066\" src=\"https:\/\/nsrd.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/Setings-Logs.png\" alt=\"PowerProtect Data Manager - Access Log Settings\" class=\"wp-image-11063\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nsrd.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/Setings-Logs.png 2256w, https:\/\/nsrd.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/Setings-Logs-300x142.png 300w, https:\/\/nsrd.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/Setings-Logs-1024x484.png 1024w, https:\/\/nsrd.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/Setings-Logs-768x363.png 768w, https:\/\/nsrd.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/Setings-Logs-1536x726.png 1536w, https:\/\/nsrd.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/Setings-Logs-2048x968.png 2048w, https:\/\/nsrd.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/Setings-Logs-1600x756.png 1600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2256px) 100vw, 2256px\" \/><\/a><figcaption><strong><em>PowerProtect Data Manager &#8211; Access Log Settings<\/em><\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Under the Log settings area, go to the <strong>Syslog <\/strong>menu option and you&#8217;ll initially get a blank form for configuring your rsyslog functionality:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/nsrd.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/Syslog-Blank.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1152\" height=\"673\" src=\"https:\/\/nsrd.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/Syslog-Blank.png\" alt=\"PowerProtect Data Manager - Syslog Settings (Empty)\" class=\"wp-image-11064\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nsrd.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/Syslog-Blank.png 1152w, https:\/\/nsrd.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/Syslog-Blank-300x175.png 300w, https:\/\/nsrd.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/Syslog-Blank-1024x598.png 1024w, https:\/\/nsrd.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/Syslog-Blank-768x449.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1152px) 100vw, 1152px\" \/><\/a><figcaption><strong><em>PowerProtect Data Manager &#8211; Syslog Settings (Empty)<\/em><\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>To configure a remote syslog server, click the &#8220;Syslog Forwarding&#8221; toggle and fill in the details. For me, this looked like the following:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/nsrd.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/Syslog-Filled-in-Details.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1152\" height=\"673\" src=\"https:\/\/nsrd.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/Syslog-Filled-in-Details.png\" alt=\"PowerProtect Data Manager - Filled in Syslog Settings\" class=\"wp-image-11065\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nsrd.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/Syslog-Filled-in-Details.png 1152w, https:\/\/nsrd.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/Syslog-Filled-in-Details-300x175.png 300w, https:\/\/nsrd.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/Syslog-Filled-in-Details-1024x598.png 1024w, https:\/\/nsrd.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/Syslog-Filled-in-Details-768x449.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1152px) 100vw, 1152px\" \/><\/a><figcaption><strong><em>PowerProtect Data Manager &#8211; Filled in Syslog Settings<\/em><\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>In addition to details for your rsyslog host, you&#8217;ll need to choose which components you wish to send details for, and the severity level you wish to see:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><strong>Components<\/strong>. These can be:<ul><li>OS Kernel<\/li><li>Third-party<\/li><li>PowerProtect Data Manager alerts and audit<\/li><li>PowerProtect Data Manager services<\/li><\/ul><\/li><li><strong>Severity<\/strong>. This can be:<ul><li>Error<\/li><li>Critical<\/li><li>Alert<\/li><li>Emergency<\/li><\/ul><\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Once I had these details configured for my lab, I jumped across to my syslog aggregator and confirmed I was now getting logs from Data Manager:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/nsrd.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/Example-Syslog-Capture.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1721\" height=\"910\" src=\"https:\/\/nsrd.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/Example-Syslog-Capture.png\" alt=\"Successful capture of PowerProtect Data Manager syslog data\" class=\"wp-image-11067\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nsrd.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/Example-Syslog-Capture.png 1721w, https:\/\/nsrd.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/Example-Syslog-Capture-300x159.png 300w, https:\/\/nsrd.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/Example-Syslog-Capture-1024x541.png 1024w, https:\/\/nsrd.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/Example-Syslog-Capture-768x406.png 768w, https:\/\/nsrd.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/Example-Syslog-Capture-1536x812.png 1536w, https:\/\/nsrd.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/Example-Syslog-Capture-1600x846.png 1600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1721px) 100vw, 1721px\" \/><\/a><figcaption><strong><em>Successful capture of PowerProtect Data Manager syslog data<\/em><\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>And there you have it: simple, easy, monitored.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As I mentioned in an earlier post, PowerProtect Data Manager 19.11 introduces support for remote syslog servers, allowing you to&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9840,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1520],"tags":[1183,1616,1558,1671],"class_list":["post-11062","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-powerprotect","tag-logging","tag-powerprotect-data-manager","tag-ppdm","tag-syslog"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/nsrd.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/bigStock-Network-Transfers.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pKpIN-2Sq","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nsrd.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11062","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nsrd.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nsrd.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nsrd.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nsrd.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11062"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/nsrd.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11062\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11069,"href":"https:\/\/nsrd.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11062\/revisions\/11069"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nsrd.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9840"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nsrd.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11062"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nsrd.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11062"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nsrd.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11062"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}