SonicWALL TZ 190 Syslog Settings

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SonicOS Enhanced 4.0 Administrator Guide
Syslog Settings
Syslog Facility
• Syslog Facility - Allows you to select the facilities and severities of the messages based
on the syslog protocol.
Note See RCF 3164 - The BSD Syslog Protocol for more information.
• Override Syslog Settings with ViewPoint Settings - Check this box to override Syslog
settings, if you’re using SonicWALL ViewPoint for your reporting solution.
Note For more information on SonicWALL ViewPoint, go to http://www.sonicwall.com.
– Syslog Event Redundancy (seconds) - This setting prevents repetitive messages
from being written to Syslog. If duplicate events occur during the period specified in the
Syslog Event Redundancy Rate field, they are not written to Syslog as unique events.
Instead, the additional events are counted, and then at the end of the period, a
message is written to the Syslog that includes the number of times the event occurred.
The Syslog Event Redundancy default value is 60 seconds and the maximum value
is 86,400 seconds (24 hours). Setting this value to 0 seconds sends all Syslog
messages without filtering.
– Syslog Format - You can choose the format of the Syslog to be Default or
WebTrends. If you select WebTrends, however, you must have WebTrends software
installed on your system.
Note If the SonicWALL security appliance is managed by SonicWALL GMS, the Syslog Server
fields cannot be configured by the administrator of the SonicWALL security appliance.
• Enable Event Rate Limiting - This control allows you to enable rate limiting of events to
prevent the internal or external logging mechanism from being overwhelmed by log events.
• Enable Data Rate Limiting - This control allows you to enable rate limiting of data to
prevent the internal or external logging mechanism from being overwhelmed by log events.