I just recently went through this exercise.
Look at http://www.campin.net/newlogcheck.html for examples of how to get
syslog-ng to log to seperate files based on hostname. Works great for me.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Christian Vogel" <chris@obelix.hedonism.cx>
To: "Tejal Shah" <tejal.shah@surat.iqara.net>
Cc: <cisco-nsp@puck.nether.net>
Sent: Monday, March 18, 2002 1:06 PM
Subject: Re: Syslog server
> Hi,
>
> > How to configure syslog server for 4 cisco device on a
> > single syslog server?
>
> Just let them log to the same server, the server will note
> the router's name in the logfile.
>
> Mar 18 21:41:24 routername %ENV-1-FIRE: router is on fire
> ^--- routername here
>
> Some advanced syslog-daemon will allow you to distinguish
> different logfiles based on the source-ip, have a look at
> syslog-ng (http://www.balabit.hu/en/downloads/syslog-ng/).
> [Note: I have not used it, but I know that it's possible with syslog-ng].
>
> Chris
>
> --
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> and the presence of absence:
> "My Novel" not found.
> -- Howard Korder
>
>
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