“In its most simplistic terms, the syslog protocol provides a transport to allow a machine to send event notification
messages across IP networks to event message collectors - also known as syslog servers.” – RFC 3164
Configure remote logging to view log files from the switch on a remote server. This functionality is enabled by syslog.
NOTE The default facility is
3(DAEMON).
(switch(config)#) Configure logging:
logging IP-ADDR