I can not find how to set up check_mk as rsyslog server. OMD is running and monitoring 6 servers. All of them also send rsyslog messages. I used tcpdump to see that rsyslog messages appear on 514 udp. I tried to set up rules for the event console but nothing appears there. Is there a clean and s…

Ok fixed it. I had rsyslogd running on the check_mk server. It ran on the same port as python3 (how ever that was possible, udp?) and thus was blocking the messages.

Check_mk as syslog server

Troubleshooting

r.sander (Robert Sander) November 25, 2021, 1:25pm 2

Something like the “Setup” chapter in the documentation?

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