[c-nsp] Configuring Syslog for Cisco

[Justin M. Streiner]

On Mon, 24 Jan 2011, Jeff Wojciechowski wrote:

> PS you *may* not want to "capture as much information as possible". I 
> would imagine if you syslogged a 'debug all' that neither your syslog 
> source nor destination would be too happy.

Yes - debugging, especially something very chatty, will likely make your 
device's CPU very unhappy, in addition to generating a large amount of 
traffic to your syslog host.  If you use syslog as a means to get alerts 
into a network monitoring system for your NOC, debug can make your NMS 
(and, consequently, your NOC) very unhappy too....

Debugging should be used with great care, and as narrowly scoped (turn on 
only the debugging you need, only for as long as you need it) as possible.

jms

> -----Original Message-----
> From: cisco-nsp-bounces at puck.nether.net [mailto:cisco-nsp-bounces at puck.nether.net] On Behalf Of Mario Iseli
> Sent: Monday, January 24, 2011 8:19 AM
> To: cisco-nsp at puck.nether.net
> Subject: Re: [c-nsp] Configuring Syslog for Cisco
>
> Hi,
>
> So what exactly is your question? If you just want to enable Syslog logging, why not googling for "syslog cisco" first? The first result already tells you how to configure it on most Cisco devices:
>
> http://www.linuxhomenetworking.com/wiki/index.php/Quick_HOWTO_:_Ap04_:_syslo
> g_Configuration_and_Cisco_Devices
>
> Regards,
> Mario
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: cisco-nsp-bounces at puck.nether.net
> [mailto:cisco-nsp-bounces at puck.nether.net] On Behalf Of Righa Shake
> Sent: Monday, January 24, 2011 3:02 PM
> To: cisco-nsp at puck.nether.net
> Subject: [c-nsp] Configuring Syslog for Cisco
>
> Hi,
>
> Am trying to capture as much information as possible in regards to syslog.
> Am looking to have the logs sent to a syslog server.
>
> regards,
> Shake
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