Configuring a Syslog Notifier

Syslog is a mechanism for recording information about significant events into a log file. It originated on Unix hosts which wrote the information to a local file (the system log file). This was later enhanced to write the data across a network to a server that collects the entries.

InterMapper can send a syslog message as a notification. That is, when an event occurs, InterMapper can write the data to a specified syslog server on the network.

Send syslog messages to: - the IP address or DNS name of the syslog server that should receive the message

Facility: - The syslog server administrator may specify that messages from a particular source be tagged with a certain facility code. Select the facility requested by your administrator.

Severity: - Syslog messages can be tagged with a severity, so that the syslog files can be scanned for entries with different priority. Set the desired severity to

  • Emergency
  • Alert
  • Critical
  • Error
  • Warning
  • Notice
  • Informational
  • Debug

Edit message... - You may enter the format of the syslog message. See Editing the text of an E-mail Notification Message, where this process is described. Newline characters will be converted to spaces, so the message will appear as a single line. Syslog messages will contain "InterMapper" as the syslog tag.