http://www.switch-config.com/forum/switch-router-configuration-best/monitor-your-switches-syslog-31/ 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.