The default number of messages is 50. For FastIron devices, you can set the Syslog buffer limit from 1
- 1000 entries.
Local buffer configuration notes
• You must save the configuration and reload the software to place the change into effect.
• If you decrease the size of the buffer, the software clears the buffer before placing the change into
effect.
• If you increase the size of the Syslog buffer, the software will clear some of the older locally
buffered Syslog messages.
Changing the log facility
The Syslog daemon on the Syslog server uses a facility to determine where to log the messages from
the Brocade device. The default facility for messages the Brocade device sends to the Syslog server is
"user". You can change the facility using the following command.
NOTE
You can specify only one facility. If you configure the Brocade device to use two Syslog servers, the
device uses the same facility on both servers.
device(config)#logging facility local0
Syntax:
loggingfacility
facility-name
The
facility-name
can be one of the following:
• kern - kernel messages
• user - random user-level messages
• mail - mail system
• daemon - system daemons
• auth - security or authorization messages
• syslog - messages generated internally by Syslog
• lpr - line printer subsystem
• news - netnews subsystem
• uucp - uucp subsystem
• sys9 - cron/at subsystem
• sys10 - reserved for system use
• sys11 - reserved for system use
• sys12 - reserved for system use
• sys13 - reserved for system use
• sys14 - reserved for system use
• cron - cron/at subsystem
• local0 - reserved for local use
• local1 - reserved for local use
• local2 - reserved for local use
• local3 - reserved for local use
• local4 - reserved for local use
• local5 - reserved for local use
• local6 - reserved for local use
• local7 - reserved for local use
Local buffer configuration notes
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