Juniper JUNOS OS 10.3 - SYSTEM LOG MESSAGES REFERENCE 7-12-2010 Reference Manual page 79

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facility severity;
facility-override facility;
In general, it makes sense to specify an alternative facility that is not already in use on
the remote machine, such as one of the
must also configure the
syslogd
Table 8 on page 15 lists the facilities that you can specify in the facility-override statement.
Table 8: Facilities for the facility-override Statement
Facility
authorization
daemon
ftp
kernel
local0
local1
local2
local3
local4
local5
local6
local7
user
We do not recommend including the
] hierarchy level. It is not necessary to use alternative facility
host other-routing-engine
names when directing messages to the other Routing Engine, because its Junos system
logging utility can interpret the Junos-specific names.
Examples: Assigning an Alternative Facility
Log all messages generated on the local routing platform at the error level or higher to
the facility on the remote machine called
local0
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any error;
Chapter 1: Configuring System Log Messages
facilities. On the remote machine, you
localX
utility to handle the messages in the desired manner.
Description
Authentication and authorization attempts
Actions performed or errors encountered by system processes
Actions performed or errors encountered by the FTP process
Actions performed or errors encountered by the Junos kernel
Local facility number 0
Local facility number 1
Local facility number 2
Local facility number 3
Local facility number 4
Local facility number 5
Local facility number 6
Local facility number 7
Actions performed or errors encountered by user-space processes
facility-override statement at the [
monitor.mycompany.com
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