Forwarding Logs To An Email Address - HP ProCurve Secure Router 7203 dl Advanced Management And Configuration Manual

ProCurve Secure Router OS Firewall—Protecting the Internal, Trusted Network

Forwarding Logs to an Email Address

You can also configure the ProCurve Secure Router to send logs to email
accounts. In this way, you and other network administrators can check up on
a network.
Forwarding logs to an email address can also be very useful when trouble-
shooting a problem between two remote sites. For example, problems with
routing protocols may affect an entire WAN. When you can examine events
on the remote router in your email, you can more easily troubleshoot the local
router. (Of course, if the local router loses total connectivity with a remote
router, you will not be able to receive logs from it through a local email server.)
You can also configure the router to send exception reports to one or more
email addresses.
To configure the router to forward event logs to an email address or addresses,
you must:
1. Enable log forwarding to an email address. Enter:
ProCurve(config)# logging email on
2. Specify the IP address of the email server. You can use either the IP
address of the email server or the hostname:
Syntax: logging email receiver-ip [<A.B.C.D> | <hostname>]
For example:
ProCurve(config)# logging email receiver-ip 172.16.60.99
3. Specify the email address for the recipient(s) of the logs:
Syntax: logging email address-list <email address>;<another email address>
More than one person can receive the logs from the ProCurve Secure
Router. To specify multiple email addresses, separate each email address
with a semi-colon. Do not enter a space between the next email address
and the semi-colon that precedes it. You can specify as many email
addresses as you want. For example:
ProCurve(config)# logging email address-list
juan@procurve.com;heidi@procurve.com
4. If you want the router to forward exception reports as well, enter this
command:
Syntax: logging email exception-report address-list <email address>;<another
email address>
Configuring Logging
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