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Chapter 2 Monitoring the System
Logging
Default Log Configuration
System IOS components (ASI cards, MRP cards, and the SSP card) ship with the default logging configuration shown in Table
Table
Configuration Parameters | Default Setting |
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System message logging to the console | Disabled |
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System message logging to Telnet sessions | Disabled |
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Log server | Disabled |
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Syslog server IP address | None configured |
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Server facility | LOCAL7 |
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Server severity | Warnings (4) |
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Logging buffer size | 500 |
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Logging history size | 1 |
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Timestamp option | Disabled |
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Tip To view the state of syslog error and event logging, including host addresses
and whether console logging is enabled, enter the IOS show logging command.
Configuring the Syslog Daemon on UNIX Syslog Servers
Before you can send log messages to a UNIX syslog server, you must configure the syslog daemon on the UNIX server. To configure the syslog daemon, log in as root and include a line such as the following in the file syslog.conf:
facility.level /syslog path/myfile.log
where
•facility is the log facility keyword (see Table
•level is the severity level (see Table
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