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Well as far as the Syslog functionality itself is concerned, we simply make use of the NI System Engineering provided library that you can download through VIPM. It is a pure LabVIEW VI library using the UDP functions and that should work on all systems. As to having a system console on Linux there are many ways for that which Linux comes actually with, so I'm not sure why it couldn't be done. The problem under Linux is not that there are none, but rather that there are so many different solutions that NI maybe decided to not use any specific one, as Unix users can be pretty particular what they want to use and easily find everything else simply useless.

I didn't see it linked here but I found your Idea Exchange, and luckily I already kudo'ed it. Too bad the RT Idea Exchange, along with several others, get very little attention from NI. A little while ago I was looking for a feature in RT and noticed an idea was posted for it so I kudo'ed it and talked to NI. Turns out NI already had implemented it internally and just had never released it. The feature could be documented and released 8 years ago but NI didn't know there was that much of a need for it. I pointed them to the Idea Exchange where at least one employee (close to RT support) seemed unaware that the idea was even posted, let alone that it was gaining traction.

Thats the one I had used forever, but the post I put above is a specific binary+configuration for wrapping the built-in code on linux rt. If you click on August 2016 pdf 1559 kb and go to pg 4 you'll see what I'm talking about where the log gets routed automatically to the event viewer in system web server. As for viewers with different features, I've used and like Kiwi: http://www.kiwisyslog.com/kiwi-syslog-server Its got a ton of features for filtering and routing and such, and it has a nice web interface. If you just want to monitor 1 node then maybe you don't need something like that, I'm sure you can find a free option out there like https://github.com/tmanternach/WebSysLog or https://github.com/rla/mysql-syslog-viewer in conjunction with http://www.rsyslog.com/ Personally though I think the viewers end up getting in the way, so I normally just open the log in notepad++ and ctrl+f for stuff.

I have greatly simplified my life by using the XLR8 3rd party toolkit for all my .xlsx needs. http://sine.ni.com/nips/cds/view/p/lang/en/nid/212056

You can also use this NI function to get a list of enums strings from an enum: http://zone.ni.com/reference/en-XX/help/371361M-01/glang/get_numeric_information/