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Sending System Messages to a Syslog Server

To send system messages to a specied syslog server, use the following command. The following syslog standards are supported: RFC

5424 The SYSLOG Protocol, R.Gerhards and Adiscon GmbH, March 2009, obsoletes RFC 3164 and RFC 5426 Transmission of Syslog

Messages over UDP.

• Specify the server to which you want to send system messages. You can congure up to eight syslog servers.

CONFIGURATION mode

logging {ip-address | ipv6-address | hostname} {{udp {port}} | {tcp {port}}}

You can export system logs to an external server that is connected through a dierent VRF.

Conguring a UNIX System as a Syslog Server

To congure a UNIX System as a syslog server, use the following command.

• Congure a UNIX system as a syslog server by adding the following lines to /etc/syslog.conf on the UNIX system and assigning write

permissions to the le.

• Add line on a 4.1 BSD UNIX system. local7.debugging /var/log/ftos.log

• Add line on a 5.7 SunOS UNIX system. local7.debugging /var/adm/ftos.log

In the previous lines, local7 is the logging facility level and debugging is the severity level.

Track Login Activity

Dell EMC Networking OS enables you to track the login activity of users and view the successful and unsuccessful login events.

When you log in using the console or VTY line, the system displays the last successful login details of the current user and the number of

unsuccessful login attempts since your last successful login to the system, and whether the current user’s permissions have changed since

the last login. The system stores the number of unsuccessful login attempts that have occurred in the last 30 days by default. You can

change the default value to any number of days from 1 to 30. By default, login activity tracking is disabled. You can enable it using the

Restrictions for Tracking Login Activity

These restrictions apply for tracking login activity:

• Only the system and security administrators can congure login activity tracking and view the login activity details of other users.

• Login statistics is not applicable for login sessions that do not use user names for authentication. For example, the system does not