Agilent Technologies E2050-90003 manual Using the Gateway’s syslog File, Messages

Administration

Configuring the Gateway

To modify the configuration method by pressing the Config Preset button, press the Config Preset button on the back panel of the LAN/GPIB Gateway at the same time as you power-on the Gateway. This changes all configuration values back to the default values, including setting the bootp: ON/OFF value to the default ON value. You may now use either the BOOTP or the BOOTP with TFTP configuration method.

Using the Gateway’s syslog File

This section shows how to view and maintain a syslog file for the LAN/ GPIB Gateway. The Gateway sends status information, configuration error messages, and run-time error messages to a syslog file. The syslog file is configured via the syslog server address configuration value. For more information, see “Configuration Values” in Chapter 3.

NOTE

Windows 95/98/Me/2000/NT clients do not support a syslog server.

However, you cab use the syslog-displayTelnet command on

Windows 95/98/Me/2000/NT clients to view messages stored in the

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Viewing syslog	The messages logged to a	file can be viewed via the syslog-
Messages	display Telnet command. To do this, at the Telnet prompt (>), type:

syslog-display.

You can also view messages by looking in the syslog file itself on the computer system acting as the syslog server. In general, the same messages can be viewed in either or both places. However, a few differences do exist:

nMessages viewed with the syslog-displayTelnet command are shorter versions of the messages that are sent to the actual syslog file. In particular, syslog-displaymessages do not show the date or time when the message was logged.

nAll syslog-displaymessages are cleared out each time the Gateway powers on or reboots, or the syslog-clearTelnet command is executed.

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