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72 Cyclades® CS Console Server Installation, Administration and User Guide
Figure 8.3: Ports - Physical Ports - Data Buffering Enabled
If Buffer to Syslog is checked, data buffer files are sent to the syslog server.
NOTE: Go to Wizard - Step 5:System Log or Expert - Network - Syslog to set up a syslog server.‘
To configure data buffering for serial ports:
Perform this procedure if you wish to configure data buffering. Obtain the facility number for the
console server from the system administrator of the syslog server. Options range from Local0
to Local7.
1. Go to Ports - Physical Ports in Expert mode and select a port or ports to modify.
2. Select the Data Buffering tab. The Data Buffering form displays.
3. Select Enable Data Buffering.
4. From the Destination pull-down menu, choose Local or Remote to specify whether the data
buffer files are stored locally or remotely on a file server.
5. If you chose Local from the Destination pull-down menu, perform the following:
a. Choose Circular or Linear from the Mode pull-down menu. Will be either circular or
linear. In circular mode, data is written into the specified local data file until the upper
limit on the file size is reached; then the data is overwritten starting from the top of the file
as additional data comes in.
b. Enter a size larger than 0 in the File Size (Bytes) field.
6. If you chose Remote from the Destination pull-down menu, enter the NFS mount point for the
directory where data buffer file is to be stored in the NFS File Path field.
NOTE: If you are configuring data buffer files to be stored remotely, make sure that a system administrator has
already configured an NFS server and shared the mount point.
7. Click the checkbox next to Record the timestamp in the data buffering file to specify whether
to include a timestamp with the data.