ELOG Port Configuration

The following steps can be used to view the service configuration for elogd on a Windows system:

1. Click on Start.
2. Select Run.
3. Type services.msc and hit Enter.
4. When the Services window opens, scroll down to the elogd entry.

   

5. Double-click on the elogd entry to open it.

   

6. In the path to executable field you will see the following:
   
   "C:\Program Files\ELOG\elogd.exe" -D -c "C:\Program Files\ELOG\elogd.cfg"
   
   This shows the location of ELOG's configuration file, which is C:\Program Files\ELOG\elogd.cfg in the example above.

The value for the executable path for elogd is stored in the registry at HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\elogd.

To change the port used by ELOG, you can edit the elogd.cfg configuration file. At the top of the file, you should see the following lines:

[global]
port = 8080

Change the value of port from 8080 to whatever port you wish to use, e.g. 8090. You then need to restart the elogd service, which you can do by taking the steps given above to see the properties of the service. Right-click on the entry for elogd in the Services list and pick Restart.

You can verify that elogd is now listening on the newly designated port by using the netstat -ano command. Using the -o option for the command shows the process ID (PID) that is listening on the port. The PID is the number at the very end of the output line. You can then use the tasklist /fi command to display the process associated with the PID. The /fi allows you to filter the output of the tasklist command to show only the entries in which you are interested.

C:\>netstat -ano | find "8090"
  TCP    0.0.0.0:8090           0.0.0.0:0              LISTENING       11544

C:\>tasklist /fi "pid eq 11544"

Image Name                     PID Session Name        Session#    Mem Usage
========================= ======== ================ =========== ============
elogd.exe                    11544 RDP-Tcp#6                  0      3,808 K

You can then access the ELOG webserver by opening a web browser on the system on which you've installed ELOG and pointing the browser to the loopback address of the system, which is 127.0.0.1. I.e., you can use http://127.0.0.1:8090, or you can use the fully qualified domain name (FQDN) of the system on which ELOG was installed. E.g. you could use http://a.example.com:8090, if the system was named a.example.com and you choose 8090 for the port. By default you can connect to the ELOG webserver from other addresses, i.e. you aren't limited to just accessing it from the system on which it was installed, unless you have a firewall blocking access to the address, in which case you will need to allow access by configuring an appropriate firewall rule.