27.2.8 Configuring a Syslog Profile

The Send to Syslog field displays the name of the Syslog profile you are configuring.

  1. Specify a Facility Name for the Syslog server. It can be any name from local0 to local7. If you specify local0 - local7 as your facility name, the alerts are stored at /var/log/localmessages.

  2. Click OK.

  3. Perform one of the following actions:

    • To add another profile, continue with Step 3.

    • To save your modifications, continue with Step 4.

To configure the Syslog profile for Access Gateway Service on RHEL, perform the following steps:

  1. Go to /etc/rsyslog.conf file.

  2. Add the following under # Provides UDP syslog reception

    $ModLoad imudp.so

    $UDPServerRun 514

  3. Restart the syslog service by using one of the following commands:

    /etc/init.d/rsyslog restart OR rcsyslog start

    For the Docker deployment, perform the following steps:

    1. Run the kubectl get pods command to view the Access Manager pods.

    2. Go to the Administration Console pod by running the kubectl exec --namespace <name-of-the-namespace> -it pod/<name-of-the-administration-console-pod> - c am-ac -- sh command.

    3. Run the /etc/init.d/novell-ac restart or systemctl restart novell-ac.service command.