RE: Syslog

From: Doug Hughes (doug@Eng.Auburn.EDU)
Date: 11/13/01 

Date: Tue, 13 Nov 2001 11:03:14 -0600 (CST)
From: Doug Hughes <doug@Eng.Auburn.EDU>
To: "Butters, Kevin" <Kevin_Butters@NAI.com>
Subject: RE: Syslog
Message-ID: <Pine.SOL.4.10.10111131058370.24213-100000@goodall.eng.auburn.edu>

On Fri, 9 Nov 2001, Butters, Kevin wrote:

>
> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
> Hash: SHA1
>
> Are there standard applications that are assigned the local numbers?
> If so what are some?
>
> If the application can specify the local number is it configurable?
> If so, in a simplistic way, how?
>

most applications are configurable. Some have one or two choices.
Cisco routers for example can choose any syslog facility you like.
I recall in the distant past that there was an application on a network
device that used to prefer local6 or local7 (an internal switch).
By and large, these days it's configurable. There is no standard.
It's completely up to the vendors' discretion.

How? config files, or via http, or tftp files, or stored in nvram.
There are lots of different ways. TCP_WRAPPERS - you compile it
in via LOG_FACILITY. Cisco routers, you set it in nvram or tftp or
whatever (in a configuration file). Some printers can do it, you
set it through a web interface or via the control panel.

        Doug Hughes

Quantcast