4. Usage GUI

4.1 GUI Requirements

RSE Core is required for RSX and RSE.
RSC Core is required for for RSC.

4.2 RSE GUI usage

Documentation is build for RSE version 0.1.

4.2.1 RSE Login

image 1

Above image shows the default login. which can be found with the following url: https://<ip-of-server>/. To login use the account what was used during the installation. The password requires the following:

- Minimum of 4 characters
- Minimum of 1 capital letter
- Minimum of 1 special characters (!, @, #, $, %, ^, &, *, _, =, +, -)

4.2.2 RSE dashboard

https://github.com/tslenter/RS/blob/main/doc/images/rse_dashboard.jpg?raw=true

Above image shows the dashboard and it contains the top 10 stats with a heath indicator of the elasticsearch engine.

4.2.3 RSE text viewer

https://github.com/tslenter/RS/blob/main/doc/images/rse_text_screen.jpg?raw=true

The image above gives the default view after the login. Here you can search end view live logging.

4.2.4 RSE menu

https://github.com/tslenter/RS/blob/main/doc/images/rse_menu.jpg?raw=true

The image above displays the menu. Select “Dashboard” to view the dashboard page. “Options” holds some more additions configurations. “Logout” logs the connected user out.

4.2.5 RSE options

https://github.com/tslenter/RS/blob/main/doc/images/rse_menu_dropdown.jpg?raw=true

Within the option menu there are 3 option. “Test message” sends a UPD and TCP test message to the system. “Clear live log archive” clears all logging from the server. “License” redirects you to the license page of Remote Syslog.

4.2.7 RSE searchbar example searchstrings

By default 3 fields are used by RSE. These are:

  1. MESSAGE

  2. DATE

  3. HOST_FROM

Search options

What:

Command:

Tested:

MAC address:

\'24\\:5a\\:4c\\:1e\\:a3\\:dc\'

V

Search on a field:

MESSAGE: com*

V

Use wildcard:

com*

V

4.3 RSX GUI usage

Documentation is build for RSX version 0.1.

4.3.1 RSX Login

image 1

Above image shows the default login. which can be found with the following url: https://<ip-of-server>/. To login use the account what was used during the installation. The password requires the following:

- Minimum of 4 characters
- Minimum of 1 capital letter
- Minimum of 1 special characters (!, @, #, $, %, ^, &, *, _, =, +, -)

4.3.2 RSX dashboard

https://github.com/tslenter/RS/blob/main/doc/images/rsx_dashboard.jpg?raw=true

Above image shows the dashboard of RSX. It is the elasticsearch interface “Kibana”. More information can be found here: https://www.elastic.co/

4.3.3 RSX logout

Use the following url to logout:

https://<ip or dns>/logout

4.4 RSC GUI usage

Documentation is build for RSC version 0.2.

4.4.1 RSC Login

image 1

Above image shows the default login. which can be found with the following url: https://<ip-of-server>/. To login use the account what was used during the installation. The password requires the following:

- Minimum of 4 characters
- Minimum of 1 capital letter
- Minimum of 1 special characters (!, @, #, $, %, ^, &, *, _, =, +, -)

4.4.2 RSC livelog selection

https://github.com/tslenter/RS/blob/main/doc/images/rsc_menu_livelog.jpg?raw=true

When using PHP programming skills there is a option to add addition text files for logging. Check out GitHub for the sourcecode.

4.4.3 RSC text viewer

https://github.com/tslenter/RS/blob/main/doc/images/rsc_text_screen.jpg?raw=true

The image above gives the default view after the login. Here you can search end view live logging.

4.4.4 RSC menu

https://github.com/tslenter/RS/blob/main/doc/images/rsc_menu.jpg?raw=true

The image above displays the menu. Select “Live log” to view the Remote Syslog log file. “Options” holds some more additions configurations. “Logout” logs the connected user out. “Filter” gives a pop-up with the filter options.

4.4.5 RSC options

https://github.com/tslenter/RS/blob/main/doc/images/rsc_menu_dropdown.jpg?raw=true

Within the option menu there are 4 option. “Archive” opens the archive directory to donwload historic data. “Test message” sends a UPD and TCP test message to the system. “Clear live log archive” clears all logging from the server. “License” redirects you to the license page of Remote Syslog.

4.4.6 RSC filter

https://github.com/tslenter/RS/blob/main/doc/images/rsc_filter.jpg?raw=true

The filter allows to search live logging on text strings. There is a possibily to reverse the search. Press “Close” to apply the filter.