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Unified Services Router User Manual
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the local Event Viewer on the router‘s GUI, and thus can collect a considerable
number of logs over a sustained period. This is typically very useful for debugging
network issues or to monitor router traffic over a long duration.
This router supports up to 8 concurrent Syslog servers. Each can be configured to
receive different log facility messages of varying severity. To enable a Syslog server
select the checkbox next to an empty Syslog server field and assign the IP address or
FQDN to the Name field. The selected facility and severity level messages will be
sent to the configured (and enabled) Syslog server once you save this configuration
page‘s settings.
Figure 94: Syslog server configuration for Remote Logging (continued)
9.4.3 Event Log Viewer in GUI
Status > Logs > View All Logs
The router GUI lets you observe configured log messages from the Status menu.
Whenever traffic through or to the router matches the settings determined in the
Tools > Log Settings > Logs Facility or Tools > Log Settings > Logs
Configuration pages, the corresponding log message will be displayed in this
window with a timestamp.
It is very important to have accurate system time (manually set or from a NTP
server) in order to understand log messages.
Status > Logs > VPN Logs
This page displays IPsec VPN log messages as determined by the configuration
settings for facility and severity. This data is useful when evaluating IPsec VPN
traffic and tunnel health.