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WLC with syslog facility

aleopoldie — Mon, 05 Jul 2021 12:13:52 GMT

Hello,

I really have difficulties to understand the purpose of the syslog facilities in a WLC, and I only find documents telling how to configure, but not the real purpose.

How to know which one to choose ?

Thank you

See if this helps

Rasika Nayanajith — Wed, 15 Jun 2016 20:34:10 GMT

See if this helps

http://www.ciscopress.com/articles/article.asp?p=426638

"Syslog messages are broadly categorized on the basis of the sources that generate them. These sources can be the operating system, the process, or an application. These categories, called facility, are represented by integers, as shown in Table 4-1. The local use facilities are not reserved and are available for general use. Hence, the processes and applications that do not have pre-assigned facility values can choose any of the eight local use facilities. As such, Cisco devices use one of the local use facilities for sending syslog messages."

Table 4-1. Facility Values

Integer Facility

0 - Kernel messages
1 - User-level messages
2 - Mail system
3 - System daemons
4 - Security/authorization messages
5 - Messages generated internally by Syslogd
6 - Line printer subsystem
7 - Network news subsystem
8 - UUCP subsystem
9 - Clock daemon
10 - Security/authorization messages
11 - FTP daemon
12 - NTP subsystem
13 - Log audit
14 - Log alert
15 - Clock daemon
16 - Local use 0 (local0)
17 - Local use 1 (local1)
18 - Local use 2 (local2)
19 - Local use 3 (local3)
20 - Local use 4 (local4)
21 - Local use 5 (local5)
22 - Local use 6 (local6)
23 - Local use 7 (local7)

HTH

Rasika

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Hello Rasika,

aleopoldie — Thu, 16 Jun 2016 06:39:35 GMT

Hello Rasika,

Thank you for your answer.

Then if I well understand, we can choose any Local use for Cisco devices ? Then for what are used all others ?

Regards,

Yes, if you want you can

Rasika Nayanajith — Thu, 16 Jun 2016 19:57:10 GMT

Yes, if you want you can configure different local facility for your routers & another facility for your switches.

In this way from your syslog server you can do analytics specific to those device class.

I do not know about other products, I believe they may also allow to configure this value on their product.

HTH

Rasika

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Refer link : http://www.cisco

mohanak — Fri, 17 Jun 2016 03:50:54 GMT

Refer link : http://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/td/docs/wireless/controller/7-0MR1/configuration/guide/wlc_cg70MR1/cg_troubleshooting.html#70550

Hi,

aleopoldie — Fri, 17 Jun 2016 06:00:13 GMT

Hi,

I already checked thi slink but it explains how to configure, not really the understanding...