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Configuration restrictions and guidelines
When you edit the file
/etc/syslog.conf
, follow these restrictions and guidelines:
•
Comments must be on a separate line and must begin with a pound sign (#).
•
No redundant spaces are allowed after the file name.
•
The logging facility name and the severity level specified in the
/etc/syslog.conf
file must be
the same as those configured on the device. Otherwise, the log information might not be output
correctly to the log host. The logging facility name and the severity level are configured by using
the
info
-
center loghost
and
info-center source
commands, respectively.
Configuration procedure
1.
Configure Device to send syslog messages to Host B:
# Enable the information center.
<Device> system-view
[Device] info-center enable
# Specify the log host 192.168.1.2/24 and specify
local4
as the logging facility.
[Device] info-center loghost 192.168.1.2 facility local4
# Disable log output to the log host.
[Device] info-center source default loghost deny
To avoid output of unnecessary information, disable all modules from outputting logs to the
specified destination (
loghost
, in this example) before you configure an output rule.
# Configure an output rule to output to the log host MAC address logs that have a severity level
of at least
informational
.
[Device] info-center source mac loghost level informational
2.
Configure the log host, Host B:
Configure Solaris as follows. Configure other UNIX operating systems in the same way Solaris
is configured.
a.
Log in to the log host as a root user.
b.
Create a subdirectory named
Device
in directory
/var/log/
.
# mkdir /var/log/Device
c.
Create file
info.log
in the
Device
directory to save logs from
Device
.
# touch /var/log/Device/info.log
d.
Edit the file
syslog.conf
in directory
/etc/
and add the following contents:
# Device configuration messages
local4.info /var/log/Device/info.log
In this configuration,
local4
is the name of the logging facility that the log host uses to
receive logs, and
info
is the informational level. The UNIX system records the log
information that has a severity level of at least
informational
to the file
/var/log/Device/info.log
.
e.
Display the process ID of
syslogd
, end the
syslogd
process, and then restart
syslogd
using the
–r
option to make the new configuration take effect.
# ps -ae | grep syslogd
147
# kill -HUP 147
# syslogd -r &
The device can output MAC address logs to the log host, which stores the logs to the specified
file.
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