Syslog > email

Need to clarify what you want.  

1) Receive an single e-mail that contains all the messages received in the last "x" minutes.
2) Receive an e-mail with each message received as it receives it?
3) Something else?

Number 2 could be a LOT of e-mails.

#1

How often do you have Kiwi rotate the logs?

If you have Kiwi do daily logs you could write a script to do the e-mail.

How much log data do you have?  Splunk is free for up to 500 MB daily, I will have to check but it may be able to do this without you writing a script.

However, even though it is only a single e-mail a day, depending on your logs that could be a large e-mail.  I would think logging on to the Kiwi server and just looking at the logs would be easier.

I surely can log into the Kiwi server and look. But, I don't want to do that - rather, I'd like the emails to show up in one place for review.  Not too unusual I should think.

Are you sure that the free Kiwi server will do this?

While the *summaries* come daily, I'd be happy to receive emails of the messages x-hourly.  Things are set up so that the message volume is low - so that's not a worry.

-->  Not too unusual I should think.

Yes it is.  If your an environment that does not have a lot of data, you would typically just access the files either through RDP or a file share.   If your an environment that gets logs of messages, you would not want that traffic in your inbox.  We have GB's of syslog data every day.

--> Are you sure that the free Kiwi server will do this?

Kiwi can send an e-mail for  any/all syslog messages it receives as it receives it, but I doubt you want that.  If it get 10 messages, you get 10 e-mails, if it gets 1 million messages, you get 1 million messages.

The script I mentioned would be a Windows batch file or VBScript that could do this and Kiwi will allow you to schedule it.

Using RDP or a file share requires overt action.  That can be a disadvantage.  Just a perspective.

The free version of Kiwi doesn't support scripting......

Then I would suggest you have Kiwi rotate logs on a daily  basis and then have Task Scheduler run a VBScript or Windows batch file to e-mail you the file.

I have not had time to check Splunk, but I know it can do a lot more  than Kiwi.

I ended up using PRTG as it is already in use here.