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Cisco Intrusion Prevention System Appliance and Module Installation Guide for IPS 7.0
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Chapter A Troubleshooting
Troubleshooting the Appliance
For More Information
To learn more about the IPS Logger service, refer to
Logger
.
Directing cidLog Messages to SysLog
It might be useful to direct cidLog messages to syslog. To direct cidLog messages to syslog, follow these
steps:
Step 1
Go to the idsRoot/etc/log.conf file.
Step 2
Make the following changes:
a.
Set [logApp]
enabled=false
Comment out the
enabled=true
because
enabled=false
is the default.
b.
Set [drain/main]
type=syslog
The following example shows the logging configuration file:
timemode=local
;timemode=utc
[logApp]
;enabled=true
;-------- FIFO parameters --------
fifoName=logAppFifo
fifoSizeInK=240
;-------- logApp zone and drain parameters --------
zoneAndDrainName=logApp
fileName=main.log
fileMaxSizeInK=500
[zone/Cid]
cmgr
Card Manager service zone
1
cplane
Control Plane zone
2
csi
CIDS Servlet Interface
3
ctlTransSource
Outbound control transactions zone
intfc
Interface zone
nac
ARC zone
rep
Reputation zone
sched
Automatic update scheduler zone
sensorApp
Analysis Engine zone
tls
SSL and TLS zone
1.
The Card Manager service is used on the AIP SSM to exchange control and state
information between modules in the chassis.
2.
The Control Plane is the transport communications layer used by Card Manager on the
AIP SSM.
3.
The CIDS servlet interface is the interface layer between the CIDS web server and the
servlets.
Table A-2
Debug Logger Zone Names (continued)
Zone Name
Description