Remotely monitoring server activity

[R3DNano]

Ok, Will give it a try.

Thank you.


On Wed, Feb 6, 2019 at 4:22 PM Alan DeKok <aland at deployingradius.com> wrote:

> On Feb 6, 2019, at 9:44 AM, R3DNano <r3dnano at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > I'm trying to manage the global freeradius status from a remote location.
> > The files under /var/log/radius/radacct are pretty detailed and have a
> > lot of information about what is going on with the freeradius server.
> > However, searching the old mailing list archives, I see there's a
> > particular thread of someone asking how to send the radacct logs to a
> > remote syslog being not a recommended practice.
>
>   Why not?  It's fine.
>
> > What's a practical way of having this information for further analysis
> > outside of the freeradius server? Send it to an SQL database somehow
> > perhaps?
> >
> > Also, about the logs sent to syslog (for further forwarding to a
> > remote syslog server) - is there a way to customize what's being sent
> > on those messages?
>
>   No.  The server messages can't be customized.  There are literally
> hundreds of different messages.
>
>   If you need *additional* custom messages, see the "linelog" module.  It
> can do custom log messages to syslog.  You can then use "linelog" any place
> you want additional logging.
>
>   Alan DeKok.
>
>
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