Configuring The Log Relay Host For Kernel Messages; Enabling Or Disabling The Log Relay Host On The Events Page; Figure 5: Log Relay Host; Table 8: Log Relay Host - D-Link DWL-3600AP Administrator's Manual

Unified Access Point Administrator's Guide
Configuring the Log Relay Host for Kernel Messages
The Kernel Log is a comprehensive list of system events (shown in the System Log) and kernel messages such
as error conditions, like dropping frames.
You cannot view kernel log messages directly from the Administration Web UI for an AP. You must first set up
a remote server running a syslog process and acting as a syslog log relay host on your network. Then, you can
configure the UAP to send syslog messages to the remote server.
Remote log server collection for AP syslog messages provides the following features:
• Allows aggregation of syslog messages from multiple APs
• Stores a longer history of messages than kept on a single AP
• Triggers scripted management operations and alerts
To use Kernel Log relaying, you must configure a remote server to receive the syslog messages. The procedure
to configure a remote log host depends on the type of system you use as the remote host.
Note: The syslog process will default to use port 514. We recommend keeping this default port.
However; If you choose to reconfigure the log port, make sure that the port number you assign to
syslog is not being used by another process.
Enabling or Disabling the Log Relay Host on the Events Page
To enable and configure Log Relaying on the Events page, set the Log Relay options as described in the
following table, and then click Apply.
Field
Relay Log
Relay Host
Relay Port
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Figure 5: Log Relay Host
Table 8: Log Relay Host
Description
Select Enabled to allow the UAP to send log messages to a remote host. Select
Disabled to keep all log messages on the local system.
Specify the IP Address or DNS name of the remote log server.
Specify the Port number for the syslog process on the Relay Host.
The default port is 514.
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