OpenView Network Node Manager: Designing and Implementing an Enterprise Solution

syslog Streams from Devices and ovevent

Network equipment is often configured to log console messages over the network to a host using its syslog facility. All UNIX systems have a daemon called syslogd that listens on UDP port 514 and logs messages received to a file name indicated in the /etc/syslog.conf file. See Figure 8-1 for an example.

Figure 8-1. The syslog.conf file.

The UNIX syslogd daemon logs incoming UDP messages into one of the listed log files. For example, routers may be configured to send their console messages to the NNM system. They will be logged to a specific file, /var/log/routerlog. # Log all kernel messages to the console. # Logging much else clutters up the screen. #kern.* /dev/console # Log anything (except mail) of ...