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This page will guide you through creating a passive journal centralization setup without the use of encryption.
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+Once you centralize your infrastructure logs to a server, Netdata will automatically detects all the logs from all servers and organize them in sources.
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+With the setup described in this document, journal files are identified by the IPs of the clients sending the logs. Netdata will automatically do
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+reverse DNS lookups to find the names of the server and name the sources on the dashboard accordingly.
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A _passive_ journal server waits for clients to push their metrics to it, so in this setup we will:
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1. configure `systemd-journal-remote` on the server, to listen for incoming connections.