Syslog Server

[Nobody's Hero]

I have setup my 11.0 HPUX system to listen to one of our routers. I am guessing that I will only see info about the router if I have an error on the router.

If that is true, how can I get the router to talk to the HPUX box as a test? I want to be sure the syslog daemon is listening to the router.

How can I perform a test from the router?

[Pete Randall]

Robert,

Can you unplug something on the router?


Pete

[Nobody's Hero]

Like a connection on the serial interface?

Is there something less disruptive I can try.
A command I can issue from the router?

[Hoang Minh Tuan]

Hi,

Your router is a Cisco product?. If yes, you should directly telnet to it to issue command: show running config , it tell you how your hardware, interfaces work.

One a time, I dimly knew a 3rd party product, OpenView Cisco Work. You can install to your server and as a monitoring agent, it will check all of your networking events, including router then save to log file in server.

HMT

[Garry Ferguson]

Robert,
We have a Cisco router which is set to the highest logging level i.e. it logs everything!
"sh run" on the router shows:
...
logging trap debug
logging facility local3
logging 172.16.2.13
...

In syslog.conf on 172.16.2.13 we have:
...
# Log all router messages to own file
local3.* -/var/log/cisco.log
...

Regards, Garry

[Sergejs Svitnevs · Accepted solution]

You should login to the router via console and type "conf t" and the "end". It will generate "%SYS-5-CONFIG_I: Configured from console by on vty0" message to your syslog daemon.

Regards,
Sergejs