Re: Syslog Message Log

Chris Bradt <[email protected]> Mon, 10 Dec 2018 20:06:41 -0600
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Ah ha!!  Thanks Mike.

I even see Integration with rsyslog in the OpenNMS docs.  I appreciate 
the help & wisdom  ...

On 12/10/2018 6:52 PM, Mike Diehn (GMail) wrote:
>
> Opennms doesn't store them in a file like syslogd or rsyslogd does. 
> You can do like David says or you can have your servers log to an 
> rsyslogd daemon on the OpenNMS server which writes to a file *and* 
> forwards to OpenNMS.
>
>
> Sincerely,
> Mike
> --
> Mike Diehn
> Enfield, NH
>
> On Mon, Dec 10, 2018, 1:56 PM Chris Bradt <[email protected] 
> <mailto:[email protected]> wrote:
>
>     I am just starting to get familiar with OpenNMS.  I have a
>     question on syslog messages -- is there a place the messages
>     themselves are logged to?
>
>     I changed the log4j2.xml key for syslogd to DEBUG just so that I
>     could verify that the messages were, in fact, getting there with a
>     fairly harmless message like an interface shutdown.  I see in the
>     syslogd.log that they got there and they did initiate an Event
>     that shows up in the GUI.
>
>     My preference at this point is to be able to log messages without
>     necessarily generating an Event, just to have a repository of
>     messages that I elect to have my devices send.  I can't find where
>     the raw messages that I have received are located.  Are they
>     somewhere?  Where?
>
>     Thanks ...
>
>     -- 
>     Chris Bradt
>     [email protected]  <mailto:[email protected]>  
>
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    <font face="Arial">Ah ha!!  Thanks Mike.  <br>
      <br>
      I even see Integration with rsyslog in the OpenNMS docs.  I
      appreciate the help &amp; wisdom  ...<br>
    </font><br>
    <div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 12/10/2018 6:52 PM, Mike Diehn
      (GMail) wrote:<br>
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        Opennms doesn't store them in a file like syslogd or rsyslogd
        does. You can do like David says or you can have your servers
        log to an rsyslogd daemon on the OpenNMS server which writes to
        a file *and* forwards to OpenNMS.<br>
        <br>
        <div data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><br>
          Sincerely,<br>
          Mike<br>
          --<br>
          Mike Diehn<br>
          Enfield, NH</div>
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      <br>
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        <div dir="ltr">On Mon, Dec 10, 2018, 1:56 PM Chris Bradt &lt;<a
            href="mailto:[email protected]" moz-do-not-send="true">[email protected]</a>
          wrote:<br>
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          <div text="#000000" bgcolor="#FFFFFF"> <font face="Arial">I
              am just starting to get familiar with OpenNMS.  I have a
              question on syslog messages -- is there a place the
              messages themselves are logged to?  <br>
              <br>
              I changed the log4j2.xml key for syslogd to DEBUG just so
              that I could verify that the messages were, in fact,
              getting there with a fairly harmless message like an
              interface shutdown.  I see in the syslogd.log that they
              got there and they did initiate an Event that shows up in
              the GUI.  <br>
              <br>
              My preference at this point is to be able to log messages
              without necessarily generating an Event, just to have a
              repository of messages that I elect to have my devices
              send.  I can't find where the raw messages that I have
              received are located.  Are they somewhere?  Where?<br>
              <br>
              Thanks ...<br>
            </font>
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