User guide

PTP 800 Series User Guide Managing alarms and events
phn-2513_004v000 (Oct 2012)
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Managing event notification messages
When system logging is enabled, log entries are added to the internal log and (optionally)
transmitted as UDP messages to one or two syslog servers.
For more information about system logging, refer to:
• System logging (syslog) on page 1-59 describes the system logging feature.
• Syslog message formats on page 4-73 describes the format and content of syslog event
messages.
• Task 10: Configuring syslog on page 6-94 describes the system logging configuration
procedure.
To enable system logging, select menu option Management, Syslog, Syslog
configuration. The Syslog Configuration page is displayed (Figure 164). Set the Syslog
State attribute to ‘Enabled’.
To view the log, select menu option Management, Syslog. The local log is displayed
(Figure 188).
Figure 188 Syslog local log