Capturing And Sending Logs To A Storage Device - Allied Telesis SwitchBlade x3100 Series Manual

Introduction

1.11.5 Capturing and Sending Logs to a Storage Device

Users can query the system for logs and send them to a storage device using the PUT FILE command. Note
that the PUT FILE command can be used for not only log files, but any supported file type. Usually logs will be
captured and sent to a network server for analysis.
For logs from both the ACTCFC and the INACTCFC, an example of using the PUT FILE command to capture
logs and send them to a TFTP server follows. In this example, the user captured logs from the INACTCFC of a
duplex system.
officer SEC> PUT LOG FILE=LOG_FILE TFTP SERVER=172.16.18.50 CARD=INACTCFC
Command has been submitted
officer SEC>
Info (010020): Successfully transferred file: LOG_FILE
The log file now exists on the TFTP server:
Any text editor can now be used to analyze the file.
Logs can be captured from any card with an independently running software load (as described above, the
ACTCFC and the INACTCFC). In the
. The procedure is the same, except that the CARD parameter will use a slot number rather than
slot
ACTCFC or INACTCFC.
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USER002 2010-07-15 10:57:23 9123 INFO
Full
User: user01 at IP: 192.16.18.103 has logged in
Summary
USER002 2010-07-15 10:57:23 9123 INFO
Message
User: user01 at IP: 192.16.18.103 has logged in
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Comparison of Log Formats
FIGURE 1-9
TFTP session with reception of log file
FIGURE 1-10
PUT LOG
Capturing and Sending Logs to a Storage Device
command syntax, the
CARD
parameter can have the value