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The syslog protocol is a very simplistic protocol: the syslog sender sends a

small textual message (less than 1024 bytes) to the syslog receiver. The receiver

is commonly called "syslogd", "syslog daemon" or "syslog server". Syslog

messages can be sent through UDP, TCP, or TLS. The data is sent in cleartext.
Syslog is supported by a wide variety of devices and receivers. Because of this,

syslog can be used to integrate log data from many different types of systems

into a central repository.
The syslog protocol is defined in RFC 3164. For more information on syslog,

go to

http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc3164.txt?number=3164

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The following syslog configuration parameters can be modified on the Syslog

menu:

Setting Up the Boot Server

The boot server can be on the local LAN or anywhere on the Internet.
Multiple boot servers can be configured by having the boot server DNS name

map to multiple IP addresses. The default number of boot servers is one and

the maximum number is eight. The following protocols are supported for

redundant boot servers: HTTPS, HTTP, and FTP. For more information on the

protocol used on each platform, refer to

Supported Provisioning Protocols

on

page

3-4

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Name

Possible Values

Description

Server Address

dotted-decimal IP address
OR
domain name string

The syslog server IP address or host name.

The default value is NULL.

Server Type

None=0,
UDP=1,
TCP=2,
TLS=3

The protocol that the phone will use to write to the syslog
server.

If set to “None”, transmission is turned off, but the server
address is preserved.

Facility

0 to 23

A description of what generated the log message. For
more information, refer to section 4.1.1 of RFC 3164.

The default value is 16, which maps to “local 0”.

Render Level

1 to 6

Specifies the lowest class of event that will be rendered to
syslog. It is based on log.render.level and can be a
lower value.

Refer to

Basic Logging and

on page

A-71

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Note: Use left and right arrow keys to change values.

Prepend MAC
Address

Enabled, Disabled

If enabled, the phone’s MAC address is prepended to the
log message sent to the syslog server.