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Appendix D

Conﬁguring the syslog Facility

Bay Networks provides an implementation syslog facility that works with the

UNIX syslogd daemon residing on remote host systems. The syslog facility

periodically polls the router’s event log and forwards any new router event

messages to the remote hosts that you specify. The UNIX syslogd daemon then

sends the messages to the appropriate device.

If you use Site Manager, you can use the Events Manager to examine router

events. However, if you manage your routers using a third-party SNMP-based

network management application, such as the Hewlett-Packard OpenView

Network Node Manager, you can use the syslog facility as an alternative to SNMP

traps for displaying router events.

To conﬁgure the syslog facility, you use the Conﬁguration Manager. The

Conﬁguration Manager does the following:

• Delivers event messages in the order in which they occur

• Filters messages based on a set of criteria that you deﬁne

• Enables or disables the syslog facility

This appendix contains the following information:

Topic Page

Conﬁguring the syslogd Daemon D-2

Understanding How syslog Filters Messages D-3

Conﬁguring the syslog Facility D-4

Deleting the syslog Facility from the Router D-8