phillyaj
Occasional Visitor
So I've been trying to figure out how can I capture Logs from my Asus routers (RT-AX86U and RT-AC68U-Mesh node), and I finally got it up and running. It bugs me that when I have issues, and need to restart the router that I can't go back and see what the hell happened. There's got to be a way..
Here's what I did.
Had an old Compaq Presario C700 Laptop with 2G of RAM and 100G HD laying around collecting dust, so I decided to put it to work.
First I created an Ubuntu 20.10 boot image on a USB stick and did a wipe and install of Ubuntu.
I found that "GrayLog" has an opensource FREE version that you can use, and the price was right!!
After getting the system all updated and patched, I followed the installation documentation here..
After some tweaking, patching and googling to get Java to load and all the services to start...I was able to get the server up and running.
Now...to send it some logs. First I had to setup an input listener. I found that you can't listen on port 514 (Default for Syslog), so was able to set it up to listen on port 1514.
Logged onto my Primary router (RT-AX86U) and set the Remote Log Server to my Laptop IP and port 1514 and Voila!!!
Here's what I did.
Had an old Compaq Presario C700 Laptop with 2G of RAM and 100G HD laying around collecting dust, so I decided to put it to work.
First I created an Ubuntu 20.10 boot image on a USB stick and did a wipe and install of Ubuntu.
I found that "GrayLog" has an opensource FREE version that you can use, and the price was right!!
After getting the system all updated and patched, I followed the installation documentation here..
After some tweaking, patching and googling to get Java to load and all the services to start...I was able to get the server up and running.
Now...to send it some logs. First I had to setup an input listener. I found that you can't listen on port 514 (Default for Syslog), so was able to set it up to listen on port 1514.
Logged onto my Primary router (RT-AX86U) and set the Remote Log Server to my Laptop IP and port 1514 and Voila!!!