Technicolor - Thomson SpeedTouchTM620 manual SpeedTouch Syslog

Chapter 10

SpeedTouch™ Monitoring

10.3 The SpeedTouch™ Syslog

Introduction Syslog is a basic, uncomplicated, yet powerful method to administer a network device as the SpeedTouch™. By generating syslog messages, the SpeedTouch™ is able to inform network managers about the general state of the device and to record events which can be retrieved for later analysis and diagnosis.

This chapter describes how to use the SpeedTouch™ Syslog deamon.

WELF Compliancy All syslog messages are compliant with Webtrend Extended Log Format (WELF) formatting.

The SNMP service Next to Syslog the SpeedTouch™ supports SNMP for extended device management.

For more information on SNMP see “10.1 An Introduction to SNMP” on page 134.

The SNTP client Because it is not only important to know which events occurred, but also when , the SpeedTouch™ features an integrated real-time clock. This clock supports SNTP (Simple Network Time Protocol) synchronization with one of Internet's many relating NTP servers.

For more information on the configuration and use of the SpeedTouch™ SNTP client, see “6.2 The SpeedTouch™ SNTP Client” on page 56.

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