Administration of the Avaya G350 Media Gateway - Avaya Support

Chapter 6:Configuring loggingThis chapter provides information on G350 system logging and contains the following sections:●●●●●Logging overview — overview of the G350 logging processSyslog server — instructions on how to enable and disable Syslog serversLogging file — instructions on how to enable and disable message logging to non-volatilememory, and how to display and delete the log fileLogging session — instructions on how to enable and disable the display of loggingmessages to your screenFilters and severity levels — instructions on how to filter logging messagesLogging overviewThe Avaya G350 Media Gateway includes a logging package that collects system messages inseveral output types. Each of these types is called a sink. When the system generates a loggingmessage, the message can be sent to each sink that you have enabled. You can define filtersfor each sink to limit the types of messages the sink receives.Table 3: Logging sinksSinkSessionLog fileSyslogDescriptionLogging messages are sent to the terminal screen. This sink is disabledwhenever a session ends, and remains disabled until the user enables it.Logging data is saved in the flash memory. These files serve as thesystem logging database.Logging messages are sent to up to three configured servers, usingSyslog protocol.System messages do not always indicate problems. Some messages are informational, whileothers may help to diagnose problems with communications lines, internal hardware, andsystem software.By default, all sinks are disabled. When you reset the G350, the Session sink is disabled, evenif you enabled it during the session. The other sinks retain whatever setting they had before thereset, as long as you have saved the running configuring to the startup configuration using thecopy running-config startup-config command. Filters are not disabled when youreset the G350.Issue 3 January 2005 65