Users Guide

Example of Conguring the Logging Message Format

DellEMC(conf)#logging version ?

<0-1> Select syslog version (default = 0)

DellEMC(conf)#logging version 1

Setting Up a Secure Connection to a Syslog Server

You can use reverse tunneling with the port forwarding to securely connect to a syslog server.

Figure 1. Setting Up a Secure Connection to a Syslog Server

Pre-requisites

To congure a secure connection from the switch to the syslog server:

1 On the switch, enable the SSH server

DellEMC(conf)#ip ssh server enable

2 On the syslog server, create a reverse SSH tunnel from the syslog server to the Dell OS switch, using following syntax:

ssh -R <remote port>:<syslog server>:<syslog server listen port> user@remote_host -nNf

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