3com WX3000 Manuel D’Utilisation

 

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Through combined configuration of the device name (facility), information severity level threshold 

(severity), module name (filter) and the file “syslog.conf”, you can sort information precisely for filtering. 

 

As shown in 

, Switch sends the following log information to the Linux log host whose IP 

address is 202.38.1.10: All modules' log information, with severity higher than “errors”. 

Figure 1-2 Network diagram for log output to a Linux log host 

Internet

PC

Switch

 

 

1) Configure 

Switch: 

# Enable the information center. 

<Switch> system-view 

[Switch] info-center enable 

# Configure the host whose IP address is 202.38.1.10 as the log host. Permit all modules to output log 

information with severity level higher than error to the log host. 

[Switch] info-center loghost 202.38.1.10 facility local7 

[Switch] info-center source default channel loghost log level errors debug state off trap 

state off 

2)  Configure the log host: 

Step 1: Execute the following commands as a super user (root user). 

# mkdir /var/log/Switch 

# touch /var/log/Switch/information 

Step 2: Edit the file “/etc/syslog.conf” as the super user (root user) to add the following selector/action 

pairs. 

# Switch configuration messages 

local7.info    /var/log/Switch/information