Allied Telesis AT-WR4500 Log Management, General Settings, Submenu level /system logging, Topics

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RouterOS v3 Configuration and User Guide

12 Monitoring and Management

12.1Log Management

12.1.1General Information

Summary

Various system events and status information can be logged. Logs can be saved in local routers file, displayed in console, sent to an email or to a remote server running a syslog daemon.

Specifications

Packages required: system

License required: Level1

Submenu level: /system logging, /log

Standards and Technologies: Syslog

Hardware usage: Not significant

Description

Logs have different groups or topics. Logs from each topic can be configured to be discarded, logged locally or remotely. Locally log files can be stored in memory (default; logs are lost on reboot) or on hard drive (not enabled by default as is harmful for flash disks).

12.1.2General Settings

Submenu level: /system logging

Property Description

action (name; default: memory) - specifies one of the system default actions or user specified action listed in /system logging action

prefix (text) - local log prefix

topics (info critical firewall keepalive packet read timer write ddns hotspot l2tp ppp route update account debug ike manager pppoe script warning async dhcp notification pptp state watchdog bgp error ipsec radius system web-proxy calc event isdn ospf raw telephony wireless e-mail gsm mme ntp open ovpn pim radvd rip sertcp ups; default: info) - specifies log group or log message type

Example

To log messages that are generated by firewall by saving them in local buffer

[admin@AT-WR4562] system logging> add topics=firewall action=memory

[admin@ AT-WR4500] system logging> print
Flags: X - disabled, I - invalid
#	TOPICS	ACTION PREFIX
0	info	memory
1	error	memory
2	warning	memory
3	critical	echo
4	firewall	memory

[admin@ AT-WR4500] system logging>