8-14 User’s Reference Guide

Logging

You can configure a UNIX-compatible syslog client to report a number of subsets of the events entered in the router’s WAN Event History. See “WAN Event History” on page 12-6.The Syslog client (for the PC only) is supplied as a .ZIP file on the Netopia CD.

Select Logging from the System Configuration menu.

The Logging Configuration screen appears.

Logging Configuration

WAN Event Log Options

 

Log Boot and Errors:

Yes

Log Line Specific:

Yes

Log Connections:

Yes

Log PPP, DHCP, CNA:

Yes

Log IP and IPX:

Yes

Syslog Parameters

 

Syslog Enabled:

No

Hostname or IP Address:

 

Facility...

Local 0

Return/Enter accepts * Tab toggles * ESC cancels.

By default, all events are logged in the event history.

By toggling each event descriptor either Yes or No, you can determine which ones are logged and which are ignored.

You can enable or disable the syslog client dynamically. When enabled, it will report any appropriate and previously unreported events.

You can specify the syslog server’s address either in dotted decimal format or as a DNS name up to 63 characters.

You can specify the UNIX syslog Facility to use by selecting the Facility pop-up.

Installing the Syslog client

The Goodies folder on the Netopia CD contains a Syslog client daemon program that can be configured to report the WAN events you specified in the Logging Configuration screen.

To install the Syslog client daemon, exit from the graphical Netopia CD program and locate the CD directory structure through your Windows desktop, or through Windows Explorer. Go to the Goodies directory on the CD and locate the Sds15000.exe program. This is the Syslog daemon installer. Run the Sds15000.exe program and follow the on screen instructions for enabling the Windows Syslog daemon.

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Farallon Communications R9100 manual Logging, Installing the Syslog client

R9100 specifications

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