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

Configuring a System
Using Distributed Systems Administration Utilities
Chapter 3196
Updating the syslog configuration:
Updating the /etc/rc.config.d/syslogd file to add
-N SYSLOGD_OPTS. This stops syslogd from
listening to UDP port 514.
Updating the /etc/syslog.conf file for UDP local
loopback.
Starting syslogd for the configuration changes to
take effect.
Registering the log consolidation ports in the
/etc/services file.
Starting syslog-ng.
Successfully configured hostname as a log consolidation
server.
Configuring a Serviceguard Cluster as a Log Consolidation
Server with clog_wizard
When running the clog_wizard (see clog_wizard (1M)) in a cluster, first
make sure that all the cluster members are up and available. The wizard
needs to perform configuration operations on each member. It only needs
to be run once, from any member of the cluster.
The wizard will set up and create a Serviceguard package for the
consolidated logging service. Make sure that this cluster’s
MAX_CONFIGURED_PACKAGES value can accommodate the
additional package. For more information on this setting, please refer to
the Managing Serviceguard manual which is part of the Serviceguard
documentation set.
The wizard first displays introductory paragraphs explaining log
consolidation:
Log file consolidation allows you combine the log entries from
multiple remote systems into a single file. The standard use of
this feature is to consolidate syslog data from several
systems. Each remote system continues to write entries to its
local syslog.log and additionally forwards the entries to the
consolidating host. The system's forwarding log entries are