CentOS 7 rsyslog Server Setup

CentOS 7 rsyslog Server Setup

I have firewall off and selinux disabled

Install if needed

# yum -y install rsyslog

Edit the config file

# vi /etc/rsyslog.conf

Change to the following

# Provides UDP syslog reception
$ModLoad imudp
$UDPServerRun 514
 
# Provides TCP syslog reception
$ModLoad imtcp
$InputTCPServerRun 514

Restart service

# systemctl restart rsyslog.service 

Now just point your devices to this server on port 514

Default location is /var/log for the files. This can be changed

in the rsyslog.conf file.