Monitor Your switches - SysLog setting
Posted by SwitchBackup Team - úterý 9. února 2016 16:08:08
A. Install some Syslog server. Feel free to use some suggested in previouvs thread Monitor Your switches - SNMP setting
B. Configure Your network devices to send notification to Your Syslog server. The basic settings command for Cisco switch is
configure terminal
logging host 192.168.1.2
end
Then specify the events, you can forward to Your central store - Syslog server. The most popular is spanning tree
configure terminal
spanning-tree logging
end
or interface change state - shutdown / up with
configure terminal
interface GigabitEthernet 0/1
logging event link-status
end
In case of Port-channel interfaces, the command monitoring state of subinterfaces can be usefull"
configure terminal
interface Port-channel1
logging event subif-link-status
end
There are many next command, you can use to tune up your monitoring, you can set buffer, rate limit or forward log to console too, for example
logging buffered 1024000
logging rate-limit 100
logging console informational
Look in Your SwitchBackup application, in cloud snippets repository or see suggested Cisco web pages:
Software Logging Guide on Cisco or
How to configure logging on Cisco forum.