Users Guide

Setting Up a Secure Connection to a Syslog Server

You can use reverse tunneling with the port forwarding to securely connect to a syslog server.

Pre-requisites

To configure a secure connection from the switch to the syslog server:

1. On the switch, enable the SSH server

Dell(conf)#ip ssh server enable

2. On the syslog server, create a reverse SSH

tunnel from the syslog server to the switch,

using following syntax:

ssh -R <remote port>:<syslog

server>:<syslog server listen

port> user@remote_host -nNf

In the following example the syslog server IP

address is 10.156.166.48 and the listening

port is 5141. The switch IP address is

Switch Management