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Applications > Syslog Server

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Chapter 10 Applications Click Applications > Syslog Server to open the following screen. Figure 125 Applications > Syslog Server The following table describes the labels in this screen. Table 73 Applications > Syslog Server LABEL DESCRIPTION Enable Syslog Server Select this to have the NAS accept syslog logs from syslog clients. Clear it to stop the NAS 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 NAS. 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 NAS. Purge Policy After you click Apply in the Syslog Server screen the NAS 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 NAS 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 NAS archives the syslog logs in a .tgz file on the second day of each month and deletes the original folder and syslog files. The NAS 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. 236 NAS540 User's Guide

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Chapter 10 Applications
NAS540 User’s Guide
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Click
Applications > Syslog Server
to open the following screen.
Figure 125
Applications > Syslog Server
The following table describes the labels in this screen.
Table 73
Applications > Syslog Server
LABEL
DESCRIPTION
Enable Syslog
Server
Select this to have the NAS accept syslog logs from syslog clients. Clear it to
stop the NAS 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
NAS.
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
NAS.
After you click
Apply
in the
Syslog Server
screen the NAS 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 NAS 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 NAS
archives the syslog logs in a .tgz file on the second day of each month and
deletes the original folder and syslog files. The NAS 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.