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Chapter 9: Ports Menu and Forms 143
Data Buffering
Under Ports - Physical Ports in Expert Mode, after you select one or more serial ports and click the
Modify Port(s), you can select the Data Buffering form from the tabbed menu. The Data Buffering
form appears.
There are different fields on this form depending on whether one or both options are enabled. The
form displays Enable Data Buffering and Buffer to Syslog options.
If Enable Data Buffering is active, the form displays different fields depending on whether Local or
Remote are selected from the Destination menu.
Figure 9.14: Ports - Physical Ports - Data Buffering Enabled
If Buffer to Syslog is checked, data buffer files are sent to the syslog server.
NOTE: Go to Wizard - Step 5:System Log or Expert - Network - Syslog to set up a syslog server.
The following figure shows both checkboxes (Enable Data Buffering and Buffer to Syslog) and the
Local destination selected.
The following table describes the fields available in the data buffering form.
Table 9.14: Data Buffering Form Fields
Field Name Definition
Destination Location for the data files. Either Local or Remote.
Mode (Local Destination) Will be either circular or linear. In circular mode, data is written into the specified
local data file until the upper limit on the file size is reached; then the data is
overwritten starting from the top of the file as additional data comes in. Circular
buffering requires the administrator to set up processes to examine the data
during the timeframe before the data is overwritten by new data.
File Size (Bytes) (Local
Destination) The maximum file size for the data buffer file. The file size must be greater
than zero.