PingDirectory

Managing the Syslog-Based Error Log Publisher

The PingDirectory server supports a Syslog-Based Error Log Publisher using the same mechanism as the Syslog-Based Access Log Publisher.

Configure the error logger using the dsconfig tool.

Syslog error mapping

The PingDirectory server automatically maps error log severities to the syslog severities. The following mappings are used.

Error Log Severities Syslog Severity

FATAL_ERROR,0

Syslog Emergency

SEVERE_ERROR,1

Syslog Alert

SEVERE_WARNING,2

Syslog Critical

MILD_ERROR,3

Syslog Error

MILD_WARNING,4

Syslog Warn

NOTICE,5

Syslog Notice

INFORMATION,6

Syslog Info

DEBUG,7

Syslog Debug

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