ZyXEL NSA320S User Guide - Page 224

Applications > Syslog Server

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Chapter 10 Packages Click Applications > Syslog Server to open the following screen. Figure 113 Applications > Syslog Server The following table describes the labels in this screen. Table 61 Applications > Syslog Server LABEL DESCRIPTION Enable Syslog Server Select this to have the NSA accept syslog logs from syslog clients. Clear it to stop the NSA from accepting syslog logs from syslog clients. Log Location Click View Files to browse to where you want to store the syslog logs on the NSA. Shares Select the share in which to store the syslog logs. Path Use this if you want to further specify a folder within the share. This field displays the share folder's path. Type the location of the folder using forward slashes as branch separators or use Browse to find or create a folder on the NSA. Purge Policy After you click Apply in the Syslog Server screen the NSA creates a folder for the current month's logs. The folder's name uses the year and month in YYYYMM format. Select Enable Purge Policy and set a number of months in the Log Deletion Interval field that displays to have the NSA delete the syslog messages after keeping them for the specified period of time. Regardless of how you set the purge policy, to save hard disk space the NSA archives the syslog logs in a .tgz file on the second day of each month and deletes the original folder and syslog files. The NSA creates a new folder for the syslog logs it receives after that. You can use a zip program such as 7-zip to open the archives. 224 Media Server User's Guide

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Chapter 10 Packages
Media Server User’s Guide
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Click
Applications > Syslog Server
to open the following screen.
Figure 113
Applications > Syslog Server
The following table describes the labels in this screen.
Table 61
Applications > Syslog Server
LABEL
DESCRIPTION
Enable Syslog
Server
Select this to have the NSA accept syslog logs from syslog clients. Clear it to
stop the NSA from accepting syslog logs from syslog clients.
Log Location
Click
View Files
to browse to where you want to store the syslog logs on the
NSA.
Shares
Select the share in which to store the syslog logs.
Path
Use this if you want to further specify a folder within the share. This field
displays the share folder’s path. Type the location of the folder using forward
slashes as branch separators or use
Browse
to find or create a folder on the
NSA.
After you click
Apply
in the
Syslog Server
screen the NSA creates a folder
for the current month’s logs. The folder’s name uses the year and month in
YYYYMM format.
Purge Policy
Select
Enable Purge Policy
and set a number of months in the
Log
Deletion Interval
field that displays to have the NSA delete the syslog
messages after keeping them for the specified period of time.
Regardless of how you set the purge policy, to save hard disk space the NSA
archives the syslog logs in a .tgz file on the second day of each month and
deletes the original folder and syslog files. The NSA creates a new folder for
the syslog logs it receives after that. You can use a zip program such as 7-zip
to open the archives.