Blue Coat Systems SGOS Version 5.2.2 manual Setting Event Log Size, Enabling Event Notification

Volume 9: Managing the Blue Coat SG Appliance

Related CLI Commands for Setting the Event Logging Level

SGOS#(config event-log)level {severe configuration policy informational verbose}

Table 2-1. Event Logging Level Options

severe	Writes only severe error messages to the event log.
configuration	Writes severe and configuration change error messages to the event log.
policy	Writes severe, configuration change, and policy event error messages to
	the event log.
informational	Writes severe, configuration change, policy event, and information error
	messages to the event log.
verbose	Writes all error messages to the event log.

Setting Event Log Size

You can limit the size of the appliances’s event log and specify what the appliance should do if the log size limit is reached.

To set event log size:

1.Select Maintenance > Event Logging > Size.

2.In the Event log size field, enter the maximum size of the event log in megabytes.

3.Select either Overwrite earlier events or Stop logging new events to specify the desired behavior when the event log reaches maximum size.

4.Click Apply.

Related CLI Commands to Set the Event Log Size

SSGOS#(config event-log) log-sizemegabytes

SGOS#(config event-log) when-full{overwrite stop}

Enabling Event Notification

The SG appliance can send event notifications to Internet e-mail addresses using SMTP. You can also send event notifications directly to Blue Coat for support purposes. For information on configuring diagnostic reporting, see Chapter 4: "Diagnostics".

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