Syslog messages circulate around your network and provide valuable information for system monitoring. You don't have to pay anything for this information if you use a free Syslog server. The Syslog ...

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Getting caught up in day-to-day tasks is just part of being an administrator. So how do you get to the point where you’re planning and controlling the network instead of continuously reacting to it?

A centralized syslog server was one of the first true SysAdmin tasks that I was given as a Linux Administrator way back in 1997. My boss at the time wanted to pull in log files from various appliances ...