Operator`s manual
Table Of Contents
- RS 8000/8600 Getting Started Guide
- Notices
- Table of Contents
- 1 About This Guide
- 2 Introduction
- 3 Hardware Installation
- 3.1 Safety Considerations
- 3.2 Hardware Specifications
- 3.3 Installing the Hardware
- 3.3.1 Verifying Your Shipment
- 3.3.2 Installing the Chassis
- 3.3.3 Installing an AC Power Supply
- 3.3.4 Installing a DC Power Supply
- 3.3.5 Installing the Control Module
- 3.3.6 Installing the Switching Fabric Module (RS8600 only)
- 3.3.7 Installing Line Cards
- 3.3.8 Installing GBIC Modules into Line Cards
- 3.3.9 Installing ATM Physical Media Cards (PHYs)
- 3.3.10 Multi-rate WAN Line Card and WICs
- 3.3.11 SRP Line Cards and Bridge Mate Module
- 3.3.12 Installing SFP Transceivers
- 3.3.13 Attaching the Network Cables to Line Cards
- 4 Initial Configuration
- 4.1 Powering on the RS8000/8600
- 4.2 Starting the Command Line Interface
- 4.3 Configuration Changes and Saving the Configuration File
- 4.4 Setting the Basic System Information
- 4.5 Setting Up Passwords
- 4.6 Setting Up SNMP
- 4.7 Setting the DNS Domain Name and Address
- 4.8 Setting the SYSLOG Parameters
- 4.9 Using Redundant Control Modules
- 5 Managing Software
- Appendix A Troubleshooting
- Appendix B International SaFety Information
- Index
Riverstone Networks RS 8000/8600 Switch Router Getting Started Guide 4-21
Initial Configuration Setting the SYSLOG Parameters
4.8 SETTING THE SYSLOG PARAMETERS
The RS 8000/8600 can use SYSLOG messages to communicate the following types of messages to a SYSLOG server:
Table 4-6 shows examples of the types of SYSLOG messages. Notice that after the facility type (in this case,
“
CONFIG
”) the message contains a letter that refers to the message type: “
F
” for fatal, “
E
” for error, and so on.
The RS 8000/8600 writes the SYSLOG messages to a SYSLOG daemon on UDP port 514. You can set the CLI to send
all or only some of the message types. By default, the CLI sends warning, error, and fatal messages but not
informational messages to the specified SYSLOG server.
Use the following procedure to specify the SYSLOG server and the types of messages you want the CLI to send to the
server.
1.
Ensure that you are in Enable mode by entering the
enable
command in the CLI.
2.
Use the
ping
command to verify that the RS can reach the SYSLOG server.
3.
Ensure that you are in Configure mode by entering the
configure
command in the CLI.
4.
Enter the following commands to add the SYSLOG server to the RS 8000/8600, set the message
level, and set the SYSLOG facility:
Table 4-5 Types of SYSLOG messages
Message Type Description
Fatal Information about events that caused the RS to crash and reset.
Error Information about errors.
Warning Warnings against invalid configuration information and other conditions that are not
necessarily errors.
Informational Informational messages such as status messages. The SYSLOG messages that the Control
Module displays while booting the software and reading the startup configuration file are
examples of Informational messages.
Table 4-6 Examples of message types
Message Type Example
Fatal
%CONFIG-F-CREATE_SEMA4 Unable to create %s semaphore: %d
Error
%CONFIG-E-NEED_COMMAND Need at least one command word to match
Warning
%CONFIG-W-BACKUP_CFG Cannot find Startup config - using backup on
PCMCIA flash
Informational
%CONFIG-I-SAVED configuration saved to Startup configuration
system set syslog server
KRVWQD PH RU,3DGGU!
system set syslog level fatal|error|warning|info
system set syslog
facility
IDFLOLW\W\SH!