Managing Systems and Workgroups: A Guide for HP-UX System Administrators

Configuring a System
Using Distributed Systems Administration Utilities
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specified earlier. If you choose not to consolidate this system’s syslogs,
then choosing a TCP transport earlier will require that all log forwarding
clients be configured to use the TCP transport.
The wizard displays a summary of all the configuration choices made by
the administrator:
Summary of Log Consolidation Configuration:
You have chosen to configure hostname as a Log
Consolidation Server.
Logs will be forwarded from the remote consolidation
clients to local port 1776 using the TCP protocol.
The consolidated logs will be stored under directory:
/clog
The following logs from the local system will be
consolidated:
Syslog
If these choices are correct, continue:
Do you want to continue? (y/n) [y]: y
The wizard displays its progress by describing which files are being
modified. For a complete description of the modified files, please refer to
“Manually Configuring Log Consolidation” on page 208.
Copying files that will be modified by the wizard to
/var/opt/dsau/root_tmp/clog. These files will be used to
restore the system to its current log consolidation
configuration, in the event of a failure.
Configuring hostname as a log consolidation server.
Creating the /etc/syslog-ng.conf.server configuration
file.
Creating a symbolic link from /etc/syslog-ng.conf to the
/etc/syslog-ng.conf.server configuration file.
Creating /etc/rc.config.d/syslog-ng, the log
consolidation configuration file.