O365 Manager Plus' Log Forwarder' option allows you to forward Office 365 audit logs to an external SIEM product or to a Syslog server.
Forwarding logs to Syslog Server:
Syslog is the event logging service in unix systems.You may also use this setting to forward logs to your SIEM's UDP or TCP receiver.
Configuring a Syslog Server:
- Syslog daemon runs in UDP port 514 by default.
- The default settings can be modified in the Syslog server's path configurationfile/etc/syslog.conf.
- Remember to restart Syslog daemon for the changes to take effect.
Steps to enable Syslog logging in O365 Manager Plus:
- Go to Admin tab.
- Select General Settings → Log Forwarder in the left pane.
- Select the Enable Log Forwarding checkbox.
- Click the Syslog tab.
- Enter the Syslog Server Name or IP. Ensure that this server is reachable from the server in which O365 Manager Plus is installed.
- Select the Protocol to be used.
- Enter the Port number.
- Select the Syslog Type as required by your SIEM parser from the drop-down.
Forwarding Office 365 logs to an external SIEM product: Splunk HTTP
Steps to configure Splunk HTTP event collector:
- Login to your Splunk admin account.
- Select Settings from the top right corner of the Home page.
- Select Data Inputs under Data.
- Select HTTP Event Collector under Local inputs.
- Select New Token.
- Enter a Name for the token. (Preferably O365 Manager Plus).
- Customize the rest of the fields if required.
- Click Next.
- Customize the Input Settings if required.
- Click Review.
- Check your settings and click Submit.
- Copy and save the value in Token Value field. You will need it to configure O365 Manager Plus.
- Go to Settings --> Data Inputs--> HTTP Event Collector
- Select Global Settings and enable All Tokens.
- You can customize the HTTP Port Number and rest of the fields if required.
- Click Save.
Steps to configure O365 Manager Plus:
- Login to O365 Manager Plus.
- Go to Admin tab.
- Select General Settings → Log Forwarder in the left pane.
- Select the Enable Log Forwarding checkbox.
- Click the Splunk tab.
- Enter the Port number of Splunk HTTP Event Collector and Protocol to be used.
- Enter the Token Value you had copied in step 12 of Splunk configuration in the Authentication Token field.
- Click Save.
Read more about O365 Manager Plus, here.