Setting Management Application Connections; Setting System Logging; Setting The Loghost; Disabling And Redirecting Syslog Messages - Lucent Technologies PortMaster 4 Configuration Manual

Setting Management Application Connections

To set the current Telnet access port as a console port, enter the following command:
Command> set console

Setting Management Application Connections

PMVision, ChoiceNet, and the ComOS utilities pmdial, pmcommand, pminstall,
pmreadconf, pmreadpass, and pmreset all use port 1643. For more than one of
these applications to connect at the same time, you must set the maximum number of
connections to two or more. The maximum is 10 connections.
If you use ChoiceNet to download filters dynamically, be sure to set the maximum
number of connections to 10.
To set the maximum number of concurrent connections for management applications
into the PortMaster, use the following command:
Command> set maximum pmconsole Number

Setting System Logging

PortMaster products enable you to log authentication information to a system log file for
network accounting purposes.

Setting the Loghost

To set the IP address of the loghost—the host to which the PortMaster sends syslog
messages—use the following command:
Command> set loghost Ipaddress
Note – Do not set a loghost at a location configured for on-demand connections,
because doing so keeps the connection up or brings up the connection each time a
syslog message is queued for the syslog host.
Setting the loghost's IP address to 0.0.0.0 disables syslog on the PortMaster. This change
requires a reboot to become effective.
RADIUS accounting provides a more complete method for logging usage information.
Refer to the RADIUS for Windows NT Administrator's Guide and RADIUS for UNIX
Administrator's Guide for more information on accounting.

Disabling and Redirecting Syslog Messages

By default, the PortMaster logs five types of events at the informational (info) priority
level using the authorization (auth) facility on the loghost. You can disable logging of
one or more types of events and change the facility and/or priority of log messages.
To disable logging of a type of event, use the following command:
Command> set syslog Logtype disabled
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