Setup
Search “forward”
Click “Logwatch Event Console Forwarding”
Click “Add rule”
(I even clicked the date thing)
Pull-down “Forward Messages to Event Console”
Save
Setup
search my Windows computer (with the cmkagent installed)
Click “Host”
Click “Run service discovery”
Unlike in the video my “CRIT” “Log Security” ‘big blob of every error event log ever text’ still appears under “Monitored Services” (not under “Vanished Services”, which did not appear). There are no new “Undecided Services” either (and no “Log Forwarding”).
Does this bit not apply to the raw version of checkmk or did I miss something along the way.
If someone down the line finds themself reading this because they’ve searched for the same issue, once you have this done (and he says that you need rules but “that’s done in a different video”, beginning at the 3:40 mark) this is the video you need next: