Cisco Cisco WAP371 Wireless-AC N Access Point with Single Point Setup Maintenance Manual

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Administration
Log Settings
Cisco Small Business WAP371 Wireless Access Point Administration Guide 
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CAUTION
Enabling persistent logging can decrease the flash (nonvolatile) memory and degrade network 
performance. Only enable persistent logging to debug a problem. Make sure that you disable 
persistent logging after you finish debugging the problem.
To configure persistent logging:
STEP 1
Select Administration > Log Settings in the navigation pane.
STEP  2
Configure the parameters:
Persistence—Click Enable to save system logs to nonvolatile memory so that the logs 
are kept when the WAP device reboots. You can save up to 128 log messages in the 
nonvolatile memory. When the limit of 128 is reached, the oldest log message is 
overwritten by the newest message. Clear this field to save system logs to volatile 
memory. Logs in volatile memory are deleted when the system reboots. 
Severity—The minimum severity that an event must have for it to be written to the log 
in nonvolatile memory. For example, if you specify 2 (critical), then critical, alert, and 
emergency events are logged to nonvolatile memory. Error messages with a severity 
level of 3 to 7 are written to volatile memory. 
Depth—The maximum number of messages, up to 512, that can be stored in volatile 
memory. When the number you configure in this field is reached, the oldest log event is 
overwritten by the newest log event. Note that the maximum number of log messages 
that can be stored in nonvolatile memory (the persistent log) is 128, which is not 
configurable.
STEP  3
Click Save. The changes are saved to the Startup Configuration.
Remote Log Server
The Kernel Log is a comprehensive list of system events (shown in the System Log) and 
kernel messages such as error conditions.
You cannot view kernel log messages directly from the web interface. You must first set up a 
remote log server to receive and capture logs. You can then configure the WAP device to log to 
the remote log server. 
Remote log server collection for WAP device syslog messages provides these features:
Allows aggregation of syslog messages from multiple APs.
Stores a longer history of messages than is kept on a single WAP device.