Polycom 1725-11530-310 manual Setting Up the Boot Server

Administrator’s Guide SoundPoint IP / SoundStation IP

The syslog protocol is a very simplistic protocol: the syslog sender sends a small textual message (less than 1024 bytes) to the syslog receiver. The receiver is commonly called “syslogd”, “syslog daemon” or “syslog server”. Syslog messages can be sent through UDP, TCP, or TLS. The data is sent in cleartext.

Syslog is supported by a wide variety of devices and receivers. Because of this, syslog can be used to integrate log data from many different types of systems into a central repository.

The syslog protocol is defined in RFC 3164. For more information on syslog, go to http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc3164.txt?number=3164 .

The following syslog configuration parameters can be modified on the Syslog menu:

Name	Possible Values	Description
Server Address	dotted-decimal IP address	The syslog server IP address or host name.
	OR	The default value is NULL.
	domain name string
Server Type	None=0,	The protocol that the phone will use to write to the syslog
	UDP=1,	server.
	TCP=2,	If set to “None”, transmission is turned off, but the server
	TLS=3
		address is preserved.
Facility	0 to 23	A description of what generated the log message. For
		more information, refer to section 4.1.1 of RFC 3164.
		The default value is 16, which maps to “local 0”.
Render Level	0 to 6	Specifies the lowest class of event that will be rendered to
		syslog. It is based on log.render.level and can be a
		lower value.
		Refer to Basic Logging <level/><change/> and <render/>
		on page A-86.
		Note: Use left and right arrow keys to change values.
Prepend MAC	Enabled, Disabled	If enabled, the phone’s MAC address is prepended to the
Address		log message sent to the syslog server.

Setting Up the Boot Server

The boot server can be on the local LAN or anywhere on the Internet.

Multiple boot servers can be configured by having the boot server DNS name map to multiple IP addresses. The default number of boot servers is one and the maximum number is eight. The following protocols are supported for redundant boot servers: HTTPS, HTTP, and FTP. For more information on the protocol used on each platform, refer to Supported Provisioning Protocols on page 3-4.

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