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by stephenaaa2

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I am trying to set up our hardware firewall to save it's logging onto our SBS2003 server. We have a Watchguard Firebox Soho6 firewall which gives the option to enable syslog output to a specified IP address.

What is required at the server side to make this work? The Watchguard manual is hopeless!

Thanks!

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by stephenaaa2

Hi David,

Thanks for those links and your speedy response!

I believe I have the firewall side of things set-up right for logging (there aren't that many options available to confuse things), I just don't have a handle on what it is doing at the server end. Is it dumping the data into a file (if so, where!), should I be able to view it in Windows Event Viewer or do I need to set up some service/application on the server to receive the data?

I am sure it should all be very straightforward and is probably staring me in the face... I just can't see it yet.

Thanks again!

by stephenaaa2

finally clicked! I wrongly assumed the functionality was already there in SBS 2003... wrong! I have downloaded a syslog program from CNET and have that working nicely.

I knew it was more straight-forward than I was trying to make it!

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