How do I setup a syslog server for my network?

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Published on 2011-03-13T04:17:22Z Indexed on 2011/03/13 8:11 UTC
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I would like to setup a syslog server to forward all log file from all of my VMs and servers. I really don't much about what is out there. So I turn to the community, Something on Linux is fine, what I want more is alert ability like emails telling me something is not right. If there was something to sort the logs by source that would be cool.

Where would I want run the syslog server from? My admin WS or a server/VM?

Any input would be wonderful.

Thanks in advance.

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