07-04-2007 06:32 PM - edited 03-09-2019 06:19 PM
We have a server hosting Syslog service for an application on default port 514. Can we bring a Syslog service on the same server for FWSM and if you what are the conf changes required?
07-04-2007 07:17 PM
If your reason for asking this is to keep the FWSM messages seperate, maybe an easier solution would be to send them to a different facility e.g. local3, within the existing syslog service then uniquely process them there. Would need more info about what you are trying to achieve.
07-04-2007 07:54 PM
we have a server running syslog service for an application and now we need to use syslog for another device, an FWSM.
07-05-2007 03:33 AM
A single syslog service can receive and process messages from multiple applications on multiple devices.
syslog messages have a concept of message type or message class known as facility. All messages are "stamped" with a facility.
There are eight facilities available to group and process messages as you wish. These are named local0 - local7.
FWSM messages are sent as local4 by default. This can be changed with the "logging facility" command.
Depending on the capabilites of the syslog program receiving the messages you should be able to
configure it so messages arriving with a certain facility are processed in a customised way.
For example, collect only local4 messages into a file named "fwsm.log"
If this does not meet your needs and you _REALLY_ do require a second syslog service
then FWSM can be configured to send syslogs to a non-standard port with optional udp (or tcp) parameters
on the "logging host" command. For example, you configure a second instance of syslog receiver on your
server IP address 1.1.1.2 listening on udp port 60000 the FWSM config would be
"logging host INSIDE 1.1.1.2 udp/60000"
07-04-2007 08:21 PM
we have a server running syslog service for an application and now we need to use syslog for another device, an FWSM.
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