I'm assuming your PC is running Windows. Make sure your Syslog server is running and listening on UDP port 514 (the standard), and that you've opened that port in your Windows Firewall. If it's a Windows service, go into your Administrative Tools / Services snap-in and make sure it's started. Then put your PC's IP Address into SysLogcat and tap "Save and Start". Also, make sure you have your phone's Wifi turned on. If you have a custom ROM / kernel on your phone Android Logcat may be disabled by default, in which case you need to find out how to enable it. I know that for Talon you would enter "<path to logcat-enable>/logcat-enable" in an Android Terminal app (free on the Market).
I just installed Star Syslog on my Windows PC to verify that SysLogcat would work with Windows, and discovered that Windows does not respond to an ICMP Echo request by default, which I use to verify that the address entered in SysLogcat is reachable. I am adding an option to bypass this check, and will upload it to the Android Market shortly.
Well, that might be the problem... SolarWinds Log Forwarder sends Windows Event Log entries to a Syslog server. It is not a Syslog server in and of itself. In SysLogcat you want to enter the address of the endpoint Syslog server itself.
For Windows, SolarWinds has the Kiwi Syslog Server (get the free version, not the evaluation version unless you want to pay for it). Star Syslog is another really basic one that's free. Cygwin / Syslog-ng works well, but is harder to set up and you would have to come up with a way to actually view the log. Beyond that I really don't know since I've always used a dedicated Linux box for that.
I'm pretty sure Ubuntu installs rsyslog daemon by default, but if not you can install it from the Synaptic Package Manager gui. Default settings are fine. You also might want a gui-based log viewer, so install "Log File Viewer" (or one of the others) from Synaptic if it's not already installed.
I just installed Star Syslog on my Windows PC to verify that SysLogcat would work with Windows, and discovered that Windows does not respond to an ICMP Echo request by default, which I use to verify that the address entered in SysLogcat is reachable. I am adding an option to bypass this check, and will upload it to the Android Market shortly.
Well, that might be the problem... SolarWinds Log Forwarder sends Windows Event Log entries to a Syslog server. It is not a Syslog server in and of itself. In SysLogcat you want to enter the address of the endpoint Syslog server itself.
For Windows, SolarWinds has the Kiwi Syslog Server (get the free version, not the evaluation version unless you want to pay for it). Star Syslog is another really basic one that's free. Cygwin / Syslog-ng works well, but is harder to set up and you would have to come up with a way to actually view the log. Beyond that I really don't know since I've always used a dedicated Linux box for that.
I'm pretty sure Ubuntu installs rsyslog daemon by default, but if not you can install it from the Synaptic Package Manager gui. Default settings are fine. You also might want a gui-based log viewer, so install "Log File Viewer" (or one of the others) from Synaptic if it's not already installed.
