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Alert Forward Action for Syslog Watcher
Best practices for Alert Management using Dell EMC OpenManage Enterprise Power Manager
7 Alert Forward Action for Syslog Watcher
• The syslog protocol is a network logging standard supported by a wide range of network
devices, appliances, and servers.
• Syslog messages deliver information on network events and errors. System administrators use
Syslog for network management and security auditing. With a dedicated syslog server, the
syslog protocol consolidates event records from all over the network into a single central
repository.
• Syslog Watcher installs a dedicated syslog server, integrating log data from multiple network
devices into a single, easily manageable and accessible place.
• Syslog Watcher supports IPv4 or IPv6 interfaces.
• Syslog Watcher supports exporting syslog messages to any text file types, for example CSV,
XML, and JSON.
• For configuring syslog server setting see Figure14, by default the port number is 514.
Syslog Configuration.