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Configuring a Syslog-Based Error Log Publisher

About this task

Configure a Syslog-based Error Log Publisher using the dsconfig tool. You should use syslog locally on localhost and use syslog-ng to send the data packets over the UDP protocol.

Because syslog implementations differ by vendor, review your particular vendor’s syslog configuration.

Steps

  • Use dsconfig to create a log publisher of type syslog-based-error.

    Example:

    In this example, set the syslog facility to 4 for security/authorization messages.

    $ bin/dsconfig create-log-publisher --publisher-name "syslog-error" \
  --type syslog-based-error --set syslog-facility:4 --set enabled:true