Viewing Logs - Siemens RX1500 User Manual

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Syslogs
Diagnostic Logs
The following sections describe how to view, configure and manage logs:
• Section 3.9.1, "Viewing Logs"
• Section 3.9.2, "Deleting Logs"
• Section 3.9.3, "Managing Diagnostic Logs"
• Section 3.9.4, "Managing Remote Syslog Servers"
• Section 3.9.5, "Managing Remote Server Selectors"
Section 3.9.1

Viewing Logs

Select logs can be viewed directly within the Web interface. Otherwise, these and other logs can be downloaded
from the device and viewed in a text editor/viewer.
NOTE
For information about downloading log files from the device, refer to
To view a log in the Web interface, do the following:
1. Select the Tools menu and click Device Info. The toolbar at the top of the Tools menu features the following
links:
Messages Viewer
Syslog Viewer
Authlog Viewer
Layer2log Viewer
Kernlog Viewer
Viewing Logs
All security event logs are recorded in var/log/auth.log and can be viewed in the Authlog Viewer. For
more information about viewing logs, refer to
Syslog allows users to configure local and remote syslog connections to record important, non-security event
information. The remote Syslog protocol, defined in
IP-based transport that enables a device to send event notification messages across IP networks to event
message collectors, also known as Syslog servers. The protocol is designed to simply transport these event
messages from the generating device to the collector.
All log files are organized in the log directory (/var/log) according to the facility and priority at which they
have been logged. Remote Syslog sends the requested logs to the remote server(s) at whichever facility and
priority they were initially logged, after filtering the logs based on the selectors configured for the server.
The following log files are setup with the following default selectors:
• syslog catches all logs except daemon.debug, auth or authpriv logs
• daemon.log catches all err level (and above) logs written to the daemon facility
• messages catches all info, notice and warn level logs for all facilities except auth, authpriv, cron, daemon,
mail and news
A selector setup using the following facilities at level info and up is recommended:
• daemon
• user
• kern
• syslog
Diagnostic logs record system information for the purposes of troubleshooting.
Displays all events from /var/log/messages
Displays syslog events from /var/log/syslog
Displays authentication events from /var/log/auth.log
Displays Layer 2 events from /var/log/layer2
Displays kernel events from /var/log/kern.log
Section 3.9.1, "Viewing Logs".
RFC 3164 [http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc3164], is a UDP/
Section 3.14.2, "Backing Up
Chapter 3
Device Management
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