Chapter 11 Packages
Click Applications > Syslog Server to open the following screen.
Figure 113 Applications > Syslog Server
The following table describes the labels in this screen.
Table 61 Applications > Syslog Server
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Enable Syslog | Select this to have the NSA accept syslog logs from syslog clients. Clear it to | ||
Server | stop the NSA from accepting syslog logs from syslog clients. | ||
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Log Location | Click View Files to browse to where you want to store the syslog logs on the | ||
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Shares | Select the share in which to store the syslog logs. | ||
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Path | Use this if you want to further specify a folder within the share. This field | ||
| displays the share folder’s path. Type the location of the folder using forward | ||
| slashes as branch separators or use Browse to find or create a folder on the | ||
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| After you click Apply in the Syslog Server screen the NSA creates a folder | ||
| for the current month’s logs. The folder’s name uses the year and month in | ||
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Purge Policy | Select Enable Purge Policy and set a number of months in the Log | ||
| Deletion Interval field that displays to have the NSA delete the syslog | ||
| messages after keeping them for the specified period of time. | ||
| Regardless of how you set the purge policy, to save hard disk space the NSA | ||
| archives the syslog logs in a .tgz file on the second day of each month and | ||
| deletes the original folder and syslog files. The NSA creates a new folder for | ||
| the syslog logs it receives after that. You can use a zip program such as | ||
| to open the archives. | ||
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