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Setting up syslog on a wireless router

John_neville
New Member

I have configured Splunk to capture syslog data on UDP:514 of my router but do not see any log data being captured, nor do I see it as a "Source" of data captured in in the "All Indexed data" of the Manager summary screen. I do see the local sources displayed here, but not the network port 514.

When I enter the command "splunk list udp" it comes back saying it is listening on port 514

Any suggestions would be appreciated - Thanks - John

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kjpearsall
New Member

Is udp port 514 open on the firewall of the machine that Splunk is listening on?

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ziegfried
Influencer

Have you configured the router to send the data over to Splunk? Can you validate that data is arriving using something like Wireshark? Maybe the router is sending data over TCP?

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