How To Set Up A Linux Syslog Server

Any network administrator in charge of a few network devices would like to keep a record of the events on these devices like:

• who logged into devices (or tried to connect to network devices)
• when does he/she try to login
• what did she/he do after login
• what changes and events have been announced on the device (like interface status change)

And lots of other information that might give a clue about a policy violation or tracking a series of events that led to a network disruption incident.
What I am talking about is to have a simple SYSLOG server in place to collect all log messages to a central location.
If you need to setup a quick and easy syslog server just follow the link bellow. It is meant for Debian but will work on almost all Linux distributions :
Linux Syslog Server - How To Set Up A Debian Linux Syslog Server