Remote log - how to configure

Software SW tweaks
1

I’ve configured Omnia logging to my Synology server see part of system.conf
> config system
> option timezone ‘CET-1CEST,M3.5.0,M10.5.0/3’
> option zonename ‘Europe/Prague’
> option cronloglevel ‘8’
> option log_proto ‘udp’
> option hostname ‘router’
> option log_ip ‘192.168.1.2’
> option conloglevel ‘7’

But the this doesn’t work. What is wrong? My previous router 5 years old Asus could log without any problem.

2

Perhaps the typo in last line
option conloglevel ‘7’
-> should be
option cronloglevel ‘7’

Hope this helps
Greetings Toking

3

I don’t know how logging works in default OpenWrt, but Omnia seems to use syslog-ng. I also tried to enable logging in LUCI, but no luck. There was no syslog-ng configuration created.

So I created a new file /etc/syslog-ng.d/remote.conf with the following content:

destination d_loghost { udp("192.168.1.200"); };
log {
        source(src);
        source(kernel);
#       filter(f_turris_iptables);
        destination(d_loghost);
};

After reloading syslog-ng I’m receiving the logs over the network now.

4

BTW according to https://wiki.openwrt.org/doc/uci/system, conloglevel is a valid option. :wink:

5

@chrosik Wasn’t aware of this. Thx for showing me my mistake. It’s always a chance to gain more experience

6

Part of the startup script for syslog-ng should take the settings from /etc/config/system and create an appropriate file in /etc/syslog-ng.d/.

Since the decision is to use syslog-ng by default, tying the config into that should be done by default.

7

Omnia luci has broken support for remote syslog configuration. Data entered in UI is not used anywhere. It is only stored in UCI database but NEVER pushed into appropriate syslog-ng config.

This should be bugreported I guess … and here it is: