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Now when syslog traps are received with facility level local6 we will see them in the /user/local/nmis8/logs/newVendor.log file. If this file does not exist it will be created automatically.
For the sake of this discussion let's assume the new vendor can be parsed with the existing cisco_alternate rules found in /usr/local/omk/conf/EventParserRules.nmis. We need to tell opEvents to use these parser rules on /usr/local/nmis8/logs/newVendor.log. This is done by modifying /usr/local/omk/conf/opCommon.nmis in the following manner.
Provision syslog trap routing based on facility (restart syslogd)
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