Appliance Logging; Active Sessions; Monitoring - Avocent ACS V6000 User Manual

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4. To configure data buffer storage on a syslog server in the Syslog Data Buffering Settings
section; select a facility number from the drop-down menu: Log Local 0, Log Local 1, Log
Local 2, Log Local 3, Log Local 4 or Log Local 5.
5. Click Save.

Appliance Logging

To configure Appliance Logging:
1. Click Enable appliance session data logging.
a. Select the destination for appliance session data logs from the pull-down menu.
Choices are Local, NFS, Syslog and DSView.
b. Enable or disable timestamping the appliance session data logs.
2. Click Enable appliance session data logging alerts.
3. Enter the desired alert strings (up to ten) in the fields provided.
4. Click Save.

Active Sessions

The virtual console server allows multiple users to log in and run sessions simultaneously. The
Active Sessions feature allows you to view all active sessions and to kill any unwanted
sessions. Click Active Sessions to view all open sessions on the virtual console server.
NOTE: If you start another session with the virtual console server while viewing this screen, it will not be visible until
you click Refresh at the top of the web manager window.
To kill an active session:
1. Click Active Sessions. The Active Sessions screen appears and lists all open sessions to the
virtual console server by the user's workstation IP.
2. Select the checkbox next to the session you want to kill, then click the Kill button. After a
few seconds, the Active Session screen will redisplay the open sessions, minus the one you
killed.

Monitoring

When you click Monitoring, a variety of network and virtual console port information is
available for viewing. The screens are only for viewing and have no interactivity with the user.
The following table shows the types of information available.