Accessing Router Log

metawiki1 · 03-12-2016, 12:53 PM

I am using a Motorola SBG6580 Cable Modem Gateway and have been trying to find information on how to access its log files. I can log into it and look at them but I need to automatically load them onto a computer on the local area network that is running Ubuntu and save them for parsing and automated analysis. Unable to find anything on the net regarding this.

Thanks

robertbas · 03-12-2016, 07:22 PM

set a cron job specifing the routers ip with login details in the url...

metawiki1 · 03-13-2016, 09:40 PM

Thanks for the tip. I'm researching cron jobs now and will see if I can get my system to access the actual file in the router. One issue is that the router displays the log not as a file but as a list but I guess it is html so I should be able to grab it somehow and parse it. I'll get back to you and let you know if I'm able to get this to work.

robertbas · 03-14-2016, 12:52 AM

your going to learn a very exciting set of commands doing this, commands like grep, pipe, cat... it'll all come down to a tidy one line command im sure...