Acing the CCNA Exam, Volume 2

7 Syslog

This chapter covers

• Real-time logging to the console and VTY lines
• Storing log messages locally and on a Syslog server
• The Syslog message format
• Syslog severity levels

Syslog is a standard for message logging in computers and is CCNA exam topic 4.5: Describe the use of syslog features including facilities and severity levels. Like SNMP, the topic of the previous chapter, Syslog provides mechanisms to collect information about devices and monitor network health.

Although they do have their similarities, there are significant differences between SNMP and Syslog, and for that reason, most networks make use of both protocols. SNMP is like a network health report, proactively polling devices at regular intervals to gather mostly (but not ...