Setting up Syslog Server on Openview

[James_397]

I was wondering if hp openview network node manager provided a syslog server? If it does, is it already a service that is running? or do you have to set it up?

Thanks for your help

[A. Clay Stephenson · Accepted solution]

If NNM is running on HP-UX then yes, the syslog daemon (syslogd) is already up and running. You may need to configure it by editing /etc/syslog.conf and then sending a SIGHUP to syslogd to get it to reconfigure itself after editing the config file. Man syslogd for details.

[James_397]

what if I'm using a windows server operating system?

[Court Campbell]

Just as an added note you may want to look into syslog-ng as s syslogd replacement. It has the functionality to filter syslog messages based on regular expressions and you can specify output to log files based on any matches. It really gives you a lot of power over what messages go where.

http://hpux.cs.utah.edu/hppd/hpux/Networking/Admin/syslog_ng-1.6.7/

[A. Clay Stephenson]

Beats me. Why would I run an OV/O or NNM server in Windows. Why would I ask your question in an HP-UX forum? The answer to both of those questions is that I wouldn't.

The good news is that a Google search for "syslog for Windows" should turn up tons of hits.