H3C Technologies H3C WX5500E Series Access Controllers - Manual (Page 59)

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Configuration procedure
Before the configuration, make sure that the device and the log host can reach each other. (Details not
shown.)
1. Configure the device:
# Enable the information center.
<Device> system-view
[Device] info-center enable
# Specify the log host 1.2.0.1/16, use channel loghost to output log information (optional,
loghost by default), and specify local4 as the logging facility.
[Device] info-center loghost 1.2.0.1 channel loghost facility local4
# Disable the output of log, trap, and debugging information of all modules on channel loghost.
[Device] info-center source default channel loghost debug state off log state off trap
state off
To avoid outputting unnecessary information, disable the output of log, trap, and debugging
information on the specified channel (loghost in this example) before you configure an output rule.
# Configure an output rule to output to the log host ARP and IP log information that has a severity
level of at least informational.
[Device] info-center source arp channel loghost log level informational state on trap
state off
[Device] info-center source ip channel loghost log level informational state on trap
state off
2. Configure the log host:
The following configurations were performed on Solaris which has similar configurations to the
UNIX operating systems implemented by other vendors.
a. Log in to the log host as a root user.
b. Create a subdirectory named Device in directory /var/log/, and then create file info.log in
the Device directory to save logs from Device.
# mkdir /var/log/Device
# touch /var/log/Device/info.log
c. Edit the file syslog.conf in directory /etc/ and add the following content.
# Device configuration messages
local4.info /var/log/Device/info.log
In this configuration, local4 is the name of the logging facility that the log host uses to receive
logs. info is the informational level. The UNIX system records the log information that has a
severity level of at least informational to the file /var/log/Device/info.log.
NOTE:
Be aware of the following issues while editing the file /etc/syslog.conf:
• Comments must be on a separate line and must begin with the pound sign (#).
• No redundant spaces are allowed after the file name.
• The logging facility name and the information level specified in the /etc/syslog.conf file must be
identical to those configured on the device by using the info-center loghost and info-center
source commands. Otherwise the log information might not be output properly to the log host.
d. Display the process ID of syslogd, kill the syslogd process, and then restart syslogd by using the
–r option to make the new configuration take effect.