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Using Technician Interface Software
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Remote Hosts and Filters
You use a management workstation to monitor event messages generated by
specific software entities on each router in your network. To receive at a
management workstation event messages from a router, you must
• Enable Syslog on the router.
• Define in the Syslog host table any remote hosts you want to receive
messages.
• Configure entity-specific message filters for each host.
You can configure entity filters using the Configuration Manager tool under Site
Manager, or with
set
and
commit
commands you enter at the Technician Interface
of the router.
Each entity filter selects only event messages that
• Originate from a router software entity that you specify by entity number
• Have an event message number or severity level that matches one of the
values you configured
• Originate from a router slot you specify
Figure C-2
illustrates how an entity filter limits the number of event messages
forwarded by Syslog from a router to a specific remote host. Each filter attribute
or parameter (entity number, event numbers or severity levels, and slot numbers)
that you specify increases the selectivity of a filter.
Note:
This appendix covers Syslog configuration via Technician Interface
commands only. (For information about how to configure Syslog through Site
Manager, see Configuring and Managing Routers with Site Manager.)