While the GUI does a great job of showing us the issues and events in the fabric, many people use third-party tools to aggregate data. Setting up a Syslog server is very beneficial for the aggregation of logs.
Setting up Syslog is very similar to setting up Call Home and SNMP, but with fewer steps required.
- Create a new external data collector (
Admi
|n
External Data Collectors |
Monitoring Destinations
) by right-clicking onSyslog
and selectingCreate Syslog Monitoring Destination Group
:
- Navigate to
Fabric
|Fabric Policies
|Monitoring Policies |
Default
. - Create a Syslog entry for the
default
andCommon
policies, by clicking onCallHome/SNMP/Syslog
, selectingSyslog
as the source type in the work pane, and clicking on the plus sign. Select the data collector created in step 1:
- Repeat the process for the
Access Policies
, creating the Syslog object in the default policy.