• cloud,  Mac Security,  Network Infrastructure

    Configure Syslog Options on a Meraki

    Meraki has a syslog option. To configure a Meraki to push logs to a syslog server, open your Meraki Dashboard and click on a device. From there, click on “Alerts & administration”. At the “Alerts & administration” page scroll down to the Logging section. Click on the “Add a syslog server” link and type the IP address of your syslog servers name or IP. Put the port number into the Port field. Choose what types of events to export. This could be Event Log, Flows or URLs, where: Event Log: The messages from the dashboard under Monitor > Event log. Flows: Inbound and outbound traffic flows generate syslog messages that…

  • Active Directory,  Mac OS X,  Mac OS X Server,  Microsoft Exchange Server,  Network Infrastructure,  Ubuntu,  Unix,  VMware,  Windows Server

    Stashbox: Turning a Mac Mini Into A Logstash and Kibana Server

    You have a lot of boxes. You would like to be able to parse through the logs of all those boxes at the same time, searching for a given timestamp across a set of machines for a specific string (like a filename or a port number). elasticsearch, logstash and kibana are one way to answer that kind of need. This will involve downloading three separate packages (which for this article, we’ll do in /usr/local) and creating a config file. First, install the latest Java JDK. This is available at jdk8-downloads-2133151.html. The following is going to download the latest version of logstash and untar the package into /usr/local/logstash (I like nesting…