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Screenshot 75: Collecting Syslogs - Syslogs options
2. Click Syslog tab and select Accept Syslog messages to EventsManager to enable the collection of
Syslogs from that event source/event source group.
3. From the Syslog parsing schema drop-down, select the method that GFI EventsManager Syslog
Server interprets Syslog Messages from network devices. Select from:
Simple Syslog message
Standard Linux message
Juniper Network Firewall
Cisco ASA.
4. Click Advanced… to use custom windows code page. Specify the code and click OK.
Note
Windows
®
code page is used to encode international characters to ASCII strings. Since
Syslog is not Unicode compliant, GFI EventsManager uses a code page to decode the
events. This is only applicable if GFI EventsManager is installed on a machine using a
different language than the monitored machines. For more information, refer to:
http://go.gfi.com/?pageid=esm_code_page
5. Select Archive events in database to archive collected events without applying events processing
rules.