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On-premise SIEM

How to send Trustelem logs to an on-premise SIEM?

Here we'll explain how to connect Trustelem to a SIEM or an agent capable of receiving logs and hosted in your infrastructure.
To begin with, it's important to know that Trustelem sends new events every 30s, and has a queuing system if an error is detected during transmission.

Now, how to do the setup?

1/ Install Trustelem Connect.

More information is available here:
LDAP-Radius - Trustelem Connect
For this usecase, you don't need to add any applications to the Trustelem Service, just a connector capable of joining your infra. You can use an existing Trustelem

2/ Add or edit the config.ini file.

In the folder where Trustelem Connect service is installed, edit or create the config.ini file.
Add the following lines:

outgoing_allowed = "true"
[targert.choose_a_name]
addr = "The IP/FQDN of your SIEM"
port = "The port of your SIEM"

Don't forget to change the name, the IP/FQDN, and the port!

3/ Restart Trustelem AD Connect

4/ On the Trustelem Service enable the logs sending

  • Under Send logs, choose the date from which you’ll get the logs.
  • Click Add send logs tasks
  • Click enabled
  • Under Target name, enter the name choose on the config.ini file
  • Under format, choose JSON (strongly recommended, as Trustelem logs are not properly designed for syslog)
  • Under types of logs to send, choose ALL or a specific type of logs
  • Click Save

Debug

Linux

  • Use the command nc -l -k VM_IP available_port to build a server able to receive and display the logs
    For instance: nc -l -k 10.10.126.203 6812
  • Provide the IP and the Port on the config.ini file and restart Trustelem Connect service
  • Verify if Trustelem is sending the logs

Windows

  • Download Nmap and install it with ncat checked
  • Using Powershell, go on the Nmap folder cd C:\Program Files (x86)\Nmap\
  • Use the command .\ncat.exe -l -k --allow VM_IP available_port to build a server able to receive and display the logs
    For instance: .\ncat.exe -l -k --allow 10.10.126.232 6812
  • Provide the IP and the Port on the config.ini file and restart Trustelem Connect service
  • Verify if Trustelem is sending the logs
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