February 2020
Intermediate to advanced
666 pages
15h 45m
English
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Creating an stunnel connection on CentOS 8 – client side
In this procedure, we'll configure a CentOS 8 machine to send its logs to the log server (it doesn't matter whether the log server is running on CentOS or Ubuntu):
- Install stunnel:
sudo dnf install stunnel
- In the /etc/stunnel directory, create the stunnel.conf file with the following contents:
client=yesfips=yes[speak to server]accept=127.0.0.1:6514connect=192.168.0.161:30000
In the connect line, substitute the IP address of your own log server for the one you see here.
- Enable and start the stunnel daemon:
sudo systemctl enable --now stunnel
- At the bottom of the /etc/rsyslog.conf file, look for this line:
Target="192.168.0.161" Port="514" Protocol="tcp")
Change it to this: