Outputting Log Information To A Linux Log Host - HP 5500 EI Series Configuration Manual

d. Display the process ID of syslogd, kill the syslogd process and then restart syslogd by using the
–r option to make the modified configuration take effect.
# ps -ae | grep syslogd
147
# kill -HUP 147
# syslogd -r &
Now, the system can record log information into the log file.

Outputting log information to a Linux log host

Network requirements
Configure the device to send log information that has a severity level of at least informational to the Linux
log host at 1.2.0.1/16.
Figure 19 Network diagram
Configuration procedure
Before the configuration, make sure the device and the PC can reach each other.
Configure the device:
1.
# Enable the information center.
<Sysname> system-view
[Sysname] info-center enable
# Specify the host 1.2.0.1/16 as the log host. Use the channel loghost to output log information
(optional, loghost by default), and use local5 as the logging facility.
[Sysname] info-center loghost 1.2.0.1 channel loghost facility local5
# To avoid outputting unnecessary information, disable the output of log, trap, and debug
information of all modules on channel loghost.
[Sysname] info-center source default channel loghost debug state off log state off
trap state off
# Configure an output rule to output to the log host the log information that has a severity level of
at least informational.
[Sysname] info-center source default channel loghost log level informational state
on
2. Configure the log host:
a. Log in to the log host as a root user.
b. Create a subdirectory named Device in directory /var/log/, and create file info.log in the
Device directory to save logs of Device.
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