Syslogdipadd - Brocade Communications Systems 8 Command Reference Manual

syslogdIpAdd

Configures a switch to forward system messages to specified servers.
Synopsis syslogdipadd ip_address
Description Use this command to configure a switch to forward all error log entries to the syslog daemon
(syslogd) of one or more specified servers. The syslog daemon is a process available on most UNIX
systems that reads and forwards system messages to the appropriate log files or users, depending
on the system configuration. Up to six servers are supported.
Only one syslogd server can be specified at any given time. To configure more than one server, the
command must be executed for each server.
Note The execution of this command is subject to Virtual Fabric or Admin Domain restrictions that may
be in place. Refer to chapter 1, "Using Fabric OS commands" and Appendix A, "Command
Availability" for details.
Operands This command has the following operands:
ip_address
Examples To add an IP address to the list of machines to which system messages are sent:
To add a second IP address to the existing syslogd server configuration:
See Also errShow, syslogdFacility, syslogdIpRemove, syslogdIpShow
Fabric OS Command Reference
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Specifies the IP address of the server running syslogd in IPv4 or IPv6 format.
switch:admin> syslogdipadd
switch:admin> syslogdipshow
syslog.1 1080::8:800:200C:417A
switch:admin> syslogdipadd 192.168.163.234
switch:admin> syslogdipshow
syslog.1 1080::8:800:200C:417A
syslog.2 192.168.163.234
1080::8:800:200C:417A
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syslogdIpAdd
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