User Guide
62.....Avocent® ACS 6000 Advanced Console Server
Event Destinations
The console server will generate notifications for a variety of events. You can configure the console
server to direct or store event notifications to various destinations for immediate use or for analysis
later.
To configure Event Destinations:
1. Click on Event and Logs - Event Destinations.
2. Under the Syslog heading, use the drop-down menu to select the Facility.
Select Remote Server - IPv4 to enable syslog messages to be sent to one or more remote
IPv4 syslog servers, and enter the IPv4 Address or Hostname and the UPDport for each
remote syslog server.
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Select Remote Server - IPv6 to enable syslog messages to be sent to one or more remote
IPv6 syslog servers, and enter the IPv6 Address or Hostname and the UPDport for each
remote syslog server.
3. Select Appliance Console to send messages to the console server’s console.
4. Select Root Session to send syslog messages to all sessions where you are logged in as root
user.
5. Under the SNMP Trap heading, enter the name of the community defined in one or more of
the SNMP trap servers in the Community field then enter the IP addresses of up to five
servers in the server fields.
6. Under the SMS heading, enter the SMS Server, Port and Pager Number information in the
appropriate fields.
7. Under the Email heading, enter the Server, Port and Destination Email information in the
appropriate fields.
8. Under the DSView heading, enter the IP address of the DSView server where event
notifications will be sent in the DSView server field. Enter the syslog server port number for the
DSView server, the SSH information and the buffer warning information in the appropiate
fields.
9. Click Save.
Trap Forward
The console server will receive SNMP traps and forward them to a remote SNMP trap server.
To add a SNMP trap server to forward traps: