Solar winds have a number of tools that you'll find very useful, the tool that I'm going to look at
here is the kiwi Syslog server.
This is a lightweight Syslog server.
For a larger network and more options, you'll probably want to look at Network Performance Monitor, which
I'll show you in a moment.
You can download a free trial of the Kiwi Syslog server.
It has a lot of great features, including centrally managed Syslog and SNMP traps, you can receive
real-time alerts based on Syslog messages automatically respond to Syslog messages, store in archive your
logs scheduled a generation of Syslog reports via email and monitor and manage your logs from a Web console.
This is going to be a lot easier than trying to do it using the console of a Cisco router or even
the buffer of a Cisco router.
I'll put a link to the software below this video to learn how to use Syslog server, download a free
trial and then you can get it running with GNS3
as an example. In this example, I have a Windows 7 PC that I'm going to install
the kiwi syslog server on, under the settings of the server
I have configured the network adapter to use my localhost only.
That's because I want to connect to GNS3, under Edit preferences.
In this example I'm using VMware, so under VMware, VMware VMS, I'll select New and I'm going
to select the tools VM and click edit and under network I'm going to allow GNS3 to use any
configured VMware adapter, click OK.
Under my devices now I have this tools
win 7 PC,
which I'll add to the topology.
I'll connect it in this example to write a one on first Ethernet, one zero to the Ethernet port of
that PC, which I'll now start up.
GNS3 automatically starts up the VM in VMware workstation or if you're using virtual box it would start it
up in virtual box.
So my VM is booting up,
there it is.
I'm going to go to settings.
Go to options, shared folders, and I'm going to enable a shared folder to my downloads directory
on my local Windows machine.
If you don't want to watch the full process, skip ahead to the next video to watch the actual integration
between Cisco and Kiwi Syslog, or if you want to see the installation process, continue watching
this video.
So here's my June three download directory, I'm going to open up the Kiwi Syslog file.
In this case, I'm going to copy the Kiwi Syslog server to my desktop,
unzip it
and then I'm going to run the executable file, say yes to install the software.
You should read the terms and conditions, and if you want to continue, click, I agree, you can install
it as a service or install it as an application.
Installing it as a service means you don't have to log in to Windows to start the service.
It also allows you to manage the interface through a GUI.
So I'm going to go with that,
go with a local system account.
You can install a web interface.
I'm going to enable that click next and basically just follow the prompts to install the software on
my Windows VM, which is now connected to my GNS3 environment.
In this case, .net is required, so .net is being installed
and my Kiwi Syslog server installation can begin.
Now if I want to install the Web server I need to install some prerequisites, I'm going to click
finish in this example just to get the installation completed so that I can demonstrate the capturing
of Syslog messages from the Cisco routers to the Kiwi Syslog server.
So here's the main installation
and I'm just going to choose all the options, including starting the local Web server, I'll set a very
secure password of Cisco in this example
and click install. Now the installation would be a lot simpler if I didn't install all the options in
this example, I wanted to install multiple options, including a web interface.
So the installation process is slightly longer.
In this case, I have to reboot, so I'm going to reboot the server.