Thursday, March 1, 2012

Logging on UX1000 with SolarWinds Kiwi Syslog Server


At some point during UX1000 deployment you will need to get logs for review. With UX1000 there is a way to configure Remote log server.
There are several Syslog server options. I am going to cover SolarWinds Kiwi Syslog Server.

Kiwi download and install is no rocket science: google it on Bing, download, follow setup wizard. You can install Kiwi as Application or Server (runs as service, no need to login and start application). I installed it as an Application.

First thing is to configure Remote Log Server and subsystems for logging. ( I know you know, just saying)
 As soon as I started Kiwi Syslog server Console the messages from UX started popping up.
 
But! there is limitation: only 40 rows are shown. You can increase number of rows to display but upper range is 50, which is not enough for troubleshooting. The good news is that Kiwi writes a log in .txt.
Now you have logs to work with.

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