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You may secure the communications over the local Ethernet by enabling SSH however you will
need to generate and upload keys (refer to Chapter 14 – Advanced Configuration)
4.1.7 Syslog
In addition to built-in logging and monitoring (which can be applied to serial-attached and network-
attached management accesses, as covered in Chapter 7 - Alerts and Logging), the Console Server can
also be configured to support the remote syslog protocol on a per serial port basis:
Select the Syslog Facility/Priority fields to enable logging of traffic on the selected serial port to
a syslog server; and to appropriately sort and action those logged messages (i.e. redirect them/
send alert email etc.)
For example if the computer attached to serial port 3 should never send anything out on its serial
console port, the Administrator can set the Facility for that port to local0 (local0 .. local7 are meant for
site local values), and the Priority to critical. At this priority, if the Console Server syslog server does
receive a message, it will automatically raise an alert. Refer to Chapter 7.
4.2 Add/Edit Users
The Administrator uses this menu selection to set up, edit and delete users and to define the access
permissions for each of these users.