Im evaluating the Checkmk virtual appliance (checkmk virt1 (Trial/Free)) along with Checkmk Appliance 1.4+ (check-mk-free-2.0.0p15-2-x86_64.cma) and the SNMP graphing worked like a charm along with pdf-reporting
So a big plus for the hassel-free VM appliance + cma approach.
However I fail to make my Checkmk instance to accept incoming syslogs…
Only thing available in the web-gui under Events is Notifications!?
I have enabled “Enable processing of external messages (Event Console)” aswell as “Receive messages via syslog/UDP (Port 514)” and “Receive SNMP Traps (UDP Port 162)” in Properties of my site at http://checkmk/webconf/site_management.py and rebooted the VM appliance but still no go with syslogs.
Am I missing something here?
I have verified that syslogs arrives to the IP that Checkmk uses but they will simply not show up in the web-gui
What says your site status after restarting your site? It should show that the mkeventd is running.
You can see this inside the appliance site management or on the command line with an “cmk status”.
It seems like its not possible to login to cli/ssh when using the free edition of checkmk virt1 (Trial/Free)) - I only end up with the orange backgrund and F1/F2 selections (that is root-login is disabled in free edition). Which gives that I cannot run “cmk status” unless that is somehow possible through the web-gui?
If you open your “Setup” menu, have a look in the top right corner.
What do you see there
or
switch to the other option and look for the “Event Console”
Now when I can access the Event Console options through web-gui (that “Show more” is easily missed for a beginner of Check MK) the added rule pack didnt seem to do anything to whats being displayed in Monitor → Event Console → Events.
However when I changed settings and enabled “Syslog-like message logging” along with “Force message archiving” then the incoming syslog messages directly shows up in Monitor → Event Console → Recent Event History
To be continued but now I can send syslog messages to the Check MK box and have them available and searchable through the web-gui
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