Black Box Secure Device Servers, 1101 manual Syslog, Local Ethernet LAN LES1102A COM port

Chapter 5: Serial Port, Host, Device, and User Configuration

Figure 5-12. Serial bridge settings.

Select Serial Bridging Mode and specify the IP address of the Server console server and the TCP port address of the remote serial port (for RFC2217 bridging this will be 5001–5002).

By default, the bridging client will use RAW TCP. Select RFC2217 if this is the console server mode you have specified on the server console server.

		Local Ethernet LAN
	LES1102A		LES1102A
COM port				Serially connected device
				(for example, security
connected control				appliance)
PC

Figure 5-13. Serial bridging mode application.

You may secure the communications over the local Ethernet by enabling SSH. You will need to generate and upload keys (refer to Chapter 15— Advanced Configuration).

5.1.7 Syslog

In addition to built-in logging and monitoring (which can be applied to serial-attached and network-attached management accesses, as covered in Chapter 7—Alerts and Logging), you can also configure the console server to support the remote syslog protocol on a per serial port basis:

Select the Syslog Facility/Priority fields to enable logging of traffic on the selected serial port to a syslog server; and to appropriately sort and action those logged messages (that is, redirect them/send alert email etc.).

Figure 5-14. Syslog setting screen.

For example, if the computer attached to serial port 3 should never send anything out on its serial console port, the Administrator can set the Facility for that port to local0 (local0 .. local1 are for site local values), and the Priority to critical. At this priority, if the console server syslog server does receive a message, it will automatically raise an alert. Refer to Chapter 7—Alerts and Logging.

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