Remote-access Guide

nxlog remote access

by Duane Koelpin Published 2 years ago Updated 1 year ago
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How can I manage NXLog Enterprise Edition instances remotely?

NXLog Manager can remotely manage and monitor NXLog Enterprise Edition instances using a centralized web based management console. We offer a number of add-on products to collect logs from various solutions and services such as Salesforce, Box, Okta, Microsoft Exchange, and Microsoft Azure and Office365.

Why are my NXLog logs not showing up in Loggly?

Check to make sure that you replaced the customer token in nxlog configuration file. If your logs haven’t made it to Loggly yet, open up the nxlog log file and see what’s going on: C:\Program Files*\ xlog\data\ xlog.log

How do I install NXLog locally?

Install NXLog locally and set the ROOT to the folder in which your NXLog was installed, otherwise NXLog will not start. The path should be similar to this: C:\Program Files (x86) xlog\conf xlog.conf

What is the use of NXLog?

NXLog is recommended to be used to filter out login details and SIDs from windows security events. Compliance mandates are frameworks that organizations must implement to meet industry regulations. Some of these mandates provide guidelines and best practices, while others ...

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What is NXLog used for?

NXLog is a multi-platform log collection and centralization tool that offers log processing features, including log enrichment (parsing, filtering, and conversion) and log forwarding.

How much does NXLog cost?

no costThe NXLog Community Edition is an open source log collection tool available at no cost. It is available for Windows and GNU/Linux, whereas the NXLog Enterprise Edition supports many more platforms, such as macOS, AIX, Solaris, FreeBSD, and OpenBSD.

What is NXLog in cyber security?

NXLog is a Technology Alliance partner with Splunk. Integrate for use for Splunk products including Splunk Enterprise and Splunk Cloud. Use NXLog as the log collector for dashboards powered by Elasticsearch and Kibana.

What is NXLog manager?

NXLog Manager is a central management and monitoring tool for your NXLog agents. Managing and monitoring a large number of log collector agents can be tough if you have a lot of servers in different roles with multiple teams in charge.

How do I set up NXLog?

To install NXLog Community Edition: On the NXLog website, navigate to the Download section for NXLog Community Edition. Download the latest NXLog Community Edition installer for the Windows Platform. Copy the NXLog Community Edition installer to the computer where you will install it.

What is NXLog Enterprise Edition?

The NXLog Enterprise Edition is a high-performance multi-platform log collection solution aimed at solving these tasks and doing it with a single tool. Watch the product video. Key features. Integrate with any SIEM. The NXLog Enterprise Edition works with a wide range of SIEM and log analytics products and services.

What does the term Siem stand for?

Security information and event managementSecurity information and event management (SIEM) technology supports threat detection, compliance and security incident management through the collection and analysis (both near real time and historical) of security events, as well as a wide variety of other event and contextual data sources.

What port does NXLog use?

port 514The default is port 514. The Port directive will become deprecated from NXLog EE 6.0. After that, the port can only be defined in the ListenAddr directive.

How do I install NXLog manager?

InstallationInstalling on Debian Stretch and Buster.Installing on RHEL 6 & 7.Installing as Docker Application.Deploying on AWS.Configuring NXLog Manager for Standalone Mode.Configuring NXLog Manager for Cluster Mode.Database Initialization.Starting NXLog Manager.More items...

What protocol does NXLog use?

NXLog utilizes the TCP protocol in its om_tcp module to send log data.

What does syslog-ng do?

syslog-ng is a free and open-source implementation of the syslog protocol for Unix and Unix-like systems. It extends the original syslogd model with content-based filtering, rich filtering capabilities, flexible configuration options and adds important features to syslog, like using TCP for transport.

What is NXLog?

NXLog is a tool that converts files to syslog, which can be useful when an application produces log output that is not accepted by InsightIDR.

Where is NXLog installed?

Install NXLog locally and set the ROOT to the folder in which your NXLog was installed, otherwise NXLog will not start. The path should be similar to this: C:Program Files (x86)nxlogconfnxlog.conf

What is NXLog used for?

You can use NXLog to collect Microsoft Exchange Message Tracking logs.

Can you have multiple nxlog.conf files?

It is possible to have multiple “in” and “out” sections in the nxlog.conf file. For example, if you want to collect the security log, DHCP logs, and DNS logs from a single server, use the following nxlog.conf file:

Can you use om_ssl in InsightIDR?

If you prefer to use encrypted syslog to transport logs to InsightIDR, you can use om_ssl in your output module. For example:

Can NXLog collect security logs?

If you need to collect security log events from your environment, but do not want to use a Domain Admin account, you can configure NXLog to collect events for you.

What do you do if Loggly isn't seeing data?

If Loggly isn’t seeing data check our status page to make sure we are indexing data and search is running. You should see green dots and "All Systems Operational".

What does it mean when you see a TCP socket on 192.168.1.1:514?

Make sure that you’re editing the configuration file as "Administrator", this means that you should actually open up text editor as Administrator.

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