# How to collect logs files from different machines?

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-collect-logs-files-from-different-machines/83658>\
**Category:** Logstash\
**Created:** [April 26, 2017, 6:59am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-collect-logs-files-from-different-machines/83658 "2017-04-26T06:59:51Z")\
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**Author:** ![ginzan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/3d9bf3/32.png) [@ginzan](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/ginzan)\
**Post date:** [April 26, 2017, 6:59am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-collect-logs-files-from-different-machines/83658/1 "2017-04-26T06:59:51Z")

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Hi everyone,  
As the topic what i mentioned, a few machines produce bussiness logs files which is 'xx.log' alike ,and i have to use logstash to output to a detination which aquire NETWORK IP,but unfortunately those machine (for convenience, please allow me to call those machines 'noips') have no NETWORK [IP.So](http://IP.So) I have to transfer those log to a machine(call 'A') which has a NETWORK IP, so i can do what i wanted.  
Here is the problem: is there any better way to achieve the goal(logstash's input configuration from 'noips' and send to the destination above ) ? For example , is logstash allow to read files from remote path like FTP or NFS alike?  
Thanks a lot!

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**Author:** ![warkolm](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/warkolm/32/39224_2.png) [@warkolm](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/warkolm)\
**Post date:** [April 26, 2017, 7:12am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-collect-logs-files-from-different-machines/83658/2 "2017-04-26T07:12:46Z")

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If they have no network IPs, how do you get data off them?

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**Author:** ![ginzan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/3d9bf3/32.png) [@ginzan](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/ginzan)\
**Post date:** [April 26, 2017, 7:46am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-collect-logs-files-from-different-machines/83658/4 "2017-04-26T07:46:02Z")

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the 'network ip' above means pubic Internet ip, 'noips' have their private ip of course.

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**Author:** ![ginzan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/3d9bf3/32.png) [@ginzan](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/ginzan)\
**Post date:** [April 26, 2017, 7:48am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-collect-logs-files-from-different-machines/83658/6 "2017-04-26T07:48:05Z")

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the 'network ip' above means pubic Internet ip, 'noips' have their  
private ip of course,sorry for that not express clearly.i have a FTP  
tool which can transfer file from 'noips' to 'A', that may  
not the best way to [console.So](http://console.So), i consider flume to taranfer but have  
other problems.

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**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\
**Post date:** [May 24, 2017, 7:51am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/how-to-collect-logs-files-from-different-machines/83658/7 "2017-05-24T07:51:21Z")

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