The philosophy of syslog-ng

Typically, syslog-ng OSE is used to manage log messages and implement centralized logging, where the aim is to collect the log messages of several devices on a single, central log server.

The different devices — called syslog-ng OSE clients — all run syslog-ng OSE, and collect the log messages from the various applications, files, and other sources. The clients send all important log messages to the remote syslog-ng OSE server, which sorts and stores them.