Purpose

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This page will explain how to add a new node vendor in the event the default settings are not handling the syslog traps properly. 

For this discussion well use the term 'newVendor' to be the variable the represents the new vendor we want opEvents to handle.

Steps

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• Choose a unique syslog facility for the newVendor.
• Provision rsyslog to handle the traps appropriately.
• Provision opEvents to parse and process the traps.

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