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Enhancements in Release F.05.05 through F.05.70
Enhancements in Release F.05.05 through F.05.60
Syslog Overview
The switch’s Event Log records switch-level progress, status, and warning messages. The System-
Logging (Syslog) feature provides a means for recording these messages on a remote server. The
Syslog feature complies with RFC 3168. UNIX users know this capability as ’Syslogd’. Using Syslog
you can send Event Log messages from multiple switches to a central location to help investigate
and identify network-level problems. (Refer to Figure 4 below.)
You can configure the switch to send Event Log messages to up to six Syslog servers. Messages are
sent to the User log facility (default) on the configured server(s) or to another log facility that you
specify.
Figure 4. A Syslog server collecting Event Log Messages from Multiple Switches
Syslog Operation
Syslog is a client-server logging tool that allows a client switch to send event notification messages
to a networked device operating with Syslog server software. Messages sent to a Syslog server can
be stored to a file for later debugging analysis. Use of Syslog requires that you set up a Syslog server
application on a networked host accessible to the switch. (Refer to the documentation for the Syslog
server application you select.)
Syntax: [no] logging < syslog-ip-addr >
Enables or disables Syslog messaging to the specified IP
address. You can configure up to six addresses.
no logging removes all currently configured Syslog logging
destinations from the switch.
Two switches sending Event Log
messages to the same facility on a
single Syslog server.