Specifications

Chapter 3: Software Installation and Setup
94 SSR 8000/8600 Getting Started Guide
Setting the SYSLOG Parameters
The CLI can use SYSLOG messages to communicate the following types of messages to a
SYSLOG server:
• Fatal – Provide information about events that caused the SSR to crash and reset.
• Error – Provide information about errors.
• Warning – Provide warnings against invalid configuration information and other
conditions that are not necessarily errors. This is the default.
• Informational – Provide 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.
The SSR 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 log on 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 SSR can reach the SYSLOG server by pinging
the 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 SSR, set the
message level, and set the SYSLOG facility:
Here is an example:
system set syslog server <hostname-or-IP-addr>
system set syslog level fatal|error|warning|info
system set syslog facility <facility-type>
ssr#
config
ssr(config)#
system set syslog server 16.50.11.12
ssr(config)#
system set syslog level info
ssr(config)#
system set syslog facility local0