Netopia 4000-Series manual Logging

2-46 Firmware User 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 9-5.

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:	Yes
Syslog Parameters
Syslog Enabled:	No
Hostname or IP Address:
Facility...	Local 0

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

■By toggling each event descriptor to 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.

■Erase the log by selecting DUMP WAN LOG