The standard issue Sky Broadband SR102 ADSL router includes the capability to send syslog messages to a remote host.

Unfortunately the plucky little SR102 doesn’t send syslog messages in entirely the right format (checked using ‘syslog -F raw’):

[ASLMessageID 303320877] [Time 1463491448] [TimeNanoSec 0] [Level 2]
 [PID 4294967295] [UID 4294967294] [GID 4294967294] [ReadGID 80] [Host
 1] [Sender 2016-05-17T14] [Facility daemon] [Message 24:08.000Z
 skyhub.ihr syslog - - [skySDID@32666 mac="7C4CA5D9E148"
 sn="A502141D002081"]  Administrator login successful from IP:
 192.168.0.100 .]

You can however still use Mac OS’s syslog daemon to receive these messages, but first you’ll need to enable the socket listener:

cd /System/Library/LaunchDaemons
sudo /usr/libexec/PlistBuddy -c "add :Sockets:NetworkListener dict" com.apple.syslogd.plist
sudo /usr/libexec/PlistBuddy -c "add :Sockets:NetworkListener:SockServiceName string syslog" com.apple.syslogd.plist
sudo /usr/libexec/PlistBuddy -c "add :Sockets:NetworkListener:SockType string dgram" com.apple.syslogd.plist

To restart the syslog daemon:

sudo launchctl unload /System/Library/LaunchDaemons/com.apple.syslogd.plist
sudo launchctl load /System/Library/LaunchDaemons/com.apple.syslogd.plist

Next go into the Sky Hub web interface, click on the Security tab (default admin credentials are admin / sky), select Logs and then enter the IP address of your Mac in the Syslog server address.

You can check for Sky Hub syslog entries in /var/log/system.log

To filter out the Sky Hub messages into a separate log file, add these two lines to /etc/asl.conf and then restart the syslog daemon again:

# Sky SR102 broadband router saved to skyhub.log
? [S= Message skyhub.ihr ] file skyhub.log mode=0640 format=bsd rotate=seq compress all_max=50M

The query-action rule tells syslogd to match on the “skyhub.ihr” substring in the Message key and then save those entries to /var/log/skyhub.log. The options are for log file rotation, retaining up to 50MB of files.

Typical Sky Hub log entries will include connection retraining, web interface logins and NTP synchronisations.