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ProSecure Web/Email Security Threat Management (STM) Appliance Reference Manual
Monitoring System Access and Performance 6-7
v1.0, September 2009
6. Click Apply to save your settings.
Clearing Logs
1. Select Monitoring > Logs & Reports from the menu. The Logs & Reports submenu tabs
appear, with the Email and Syslog screen in view (see Figure 6-4 on page 6-8).
Facility The facility indicates from which internal part of the STM the log message originates. For
each log that you have selected to be sent to the syslog server (see above), select one
of the following facilities from the pull-down menu:
• auth. security and authorization log messages.
• authpriv. Security and authorization log messages for sensitive information.
• cron. Clock daemon log messages.
• deamon. Other daemon log messages.
• ftp. FTP log messages.
• kern. Kernel log messages.
• local0 through local7. Locally defined log messages (1 through 7).
• lpr. Line printer subsystem log messages.
• mail. Mail subsystem log messages.
• news. Usenet news subsystem log messages.
• syslog. Log messages that are generated internally by the syslog server (syslogd).
• user. Generic user-level log messages.
• uucp. Unix-Unix copy (UUCP) subsystem log messages.
Priority For each log that you have selected to be sent to the syslog server (see above), select
one of the following severities from the pull-down menu:
• emerg. The STM is unusable.
• alert. An action must be taken immediately.
• crit. There are critical conditions.
• err. There are error conditions.
• warning. There are warning conditions.
• notice. There are normal but significant conditions.
• info. Informational messages.
• debug. Debug-level messages.
Note: All the logs with a severity that is equal to and above the severity that you specify
are logged on the specified syslog server. For example, if you select crit as the severity,
then the logs with the severities crit, alert, and emerg are logged.
Table 6-3. Syslog Settings (continued)
Setting Description (or Subfield and Description)