APC 78-10169-02 Default Log Configuration, Configuring the Syslog Daemon on Unix Syslog Servers

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 2-4.

Table 2-4 Default Logging Configuration

Configuration Parameters	Default Setting
System message logging to the console	Disabled
System message logging to Telnet sessions	Disabled
Log server	Disabled
Syslog server IP address	None configured
Server facility	LOCAL7
Server severity	Warnings (4)
Logging buffer size	500
Logging history size	1
Timestamp option	Disabled

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 2-2)

•level is the severity level (see Table 2-3)

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