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Chapter 3: Software Installation and Setup
70 SmartSwitch Router 2000 Getting Started Guide
Here is an example of the commands above featuring the addition of two DNS server
IP addresses:
8. Enter the system show dns command to verify the new DNS settings, as shown in the
following example:
9. Use the ping command to verify that the SSR 2000 can resolve the DNS server name
into its IP address, as shown in the following example:
Setting SYSLOG Parameters
The CLI can use SYSLOG messages to communicate the following types of messages to a
SYSLOG server:
• Fatal – Provide information about events that caused the SSR 2000 to crash and reset.
• Error – Provide information about errors.
• Warning – Provide warnings against invalid configuration information and other
conditions that are not necessarily errors. This is the default.
• Informational – Provide informational messages such as status messages. The
SYSLOG messages that the SSR 2000 displays while booting the software and reading
the startup configuration file are examples of Informational messages.
The SSR 2000 writes the SYSLOG messages to a SYSLOG daemon on UDP port 514. You
can set the CLI to send all or only some of the message types. By default, the CLI sends
warning, error, and fatal messages but not informational messages to the specified
SYSLOG server.
Use the following procedure to specify the SYSLOG server and the types of messages you
want the CLI to log on the server.
ctron-ssr-1# config
ctron-ssr-1(config)# system set dns domain "mktg.cabletron.com"
ctron-ssr-1(config)# system set dns server "10.50.11.12 10.50.12.11"
ctron-ssr-1(config)# save active
ctron-ssr-1# system show dns
DNS domain: cabletron.com, DNS server(s): 10.50.11.12 10.50.12.11
ctron-ssr-1# ping ssr 1
PING ssr1.mktg.cabletron.com (10.50.11.12): 56 data bytes
64 bytes from 10.50.11.12: icmp_seq=0 ttl=255 time=0 ms
--- ssr1.mktg.cabletron.com ping statistics ---
1 packets transmitted, 1 packets received, 0% packet loss
round-trip min/avg/max = 0/0/0 ms