Logs cleared after reboot, can I stop this?

[Andy White]

Hello,

I have a remote 3G Cisco router (Cisco 819) that occastionally drops it's EzyVPN and the local guys just reboot the device so when I log on and check the logs it is empty.  My syslog server shows very little, can I keep the logs locally or up the logging to the syslog server?  If so how?

Thanks

[Richard Burts]

One possibility might be to use an EEM script. You could configure the script to use tracking to some address reached through the EzyVPN. If you lose connectivity the script could show log and write the output to a file in flash.

Thinking slightly outside the box it might work for you to have a PC connected to the console port of the router, or connect the router to a terminal server and have a PC connect through the terminal server (so that the PC does not need to be physically near the router). Have the PC let the terminal emulator run displaying console output. They can reboot the router but the log messages are still in the screen buffer of the PC.

HTH

Rick