APC Battery Management System manual Syslog

Battery Management System

USER’S GUIDE

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Syslog

By default, the Battery Management System can send messages to up to four Syslog servers whenever Battery Management System or the embedded management card events occur. The Syslog servers, which must be specifically identified by their IP addresses or domain names, record the events in a log that provides a centralized record of events that occur at network devices.

Syslog (and the event log) will also record discharge events including:

•Discharge time and date

•Discharge ambient and pilot battery temperature

•Discharge measured current

•Amp-hours removed from battery during discharge

This user’s guide does not describe Syslog or its configuration values in detail. For more information about Syslog, see RFC3164, at www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc3164.

Syslog settings. Leave the Syslog settings, except the Server IP settings, set to their defaults unless otherwise specified by the Syslog network or system administrator.

Setting	Definition
General Settings
Syslog	Enables (by default) or disables the Syslog feature.
Facility	Selects the facility code assigned to the Battery Management System’s
	Syslog messages (User, by default).
	NOTE: Although several daemon-specific and process-specific selections
	are available, along with eight generic selections, User is the selection that
	best defines the Syslog messages sent by the Battery Management
	System.

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