Can Orbi use a unix log host?

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Is there a way to get an Orbi to use a unix log host?&nbsp;-- Thanks, Verne

FURRYe38 · Answer

I presume no. Most the logging is internal and built into the FW.&nbsp;

VerneArase · Answer

FURRYe38&nbsp;wrote:I presume no. Most the logging is internal and built into the FW.&nbsp;Hmmph. You'd think implementing a log host would be dead simple.&nbsp;You just have to format a date and time and send the message to a host using a special port number.

FURRYe38 · Answer

NG already uses router ip addresss/debug.htm to capture logs.&nbsp;

VerneArase · Answer

FURRYe38&nbsp;wrote:NG already uses router ip addresss/debug.htm to capture logs.&nbsp;The point of using a log host is to provide a central (possibly more secure) host where log lines are aggregated and recorded contemporaneously - removing the requirment that all hosts are living on exactly the same clock.&nbsp;I'd like to log my Orbi log in the system log on my Mac - though I suppose that if it's going to go into a loop spitting out redundant null log lines that would be less than ideal.&nbsp;OTOH, I'd like to think that those wierd lines at the end of the log segment are an artifact of their &nbsp;segmenting/transmission protocol, and not a bug in the logging of the device itself.&nbsp;The nice thing about a contemporaneously transmitted log is that there is no segmentation logic - it's just format a time stamp, append a message, and transmit it to an IP address.&nbsp;Oh ... and time stamps belong at the beginning of the logged line - not at the end. It makes scanning for a specific date and time a much more sane process. Obviously whoever built the log facility was told to add a time stamp, and he/she took the lazy way out and just appended the date/time to the end of the message.

FURRYe38 · Answer

Well, NG seems to do what they like in regards to there logs. Use them for what you can is all I can say.&nbsp;&nbsp;

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Can Orbi use a unix log host?

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