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Determine what facility level these syslog traps should be stamped with. The syslog server will key on this facility level in order to send the syslog trap to the proper file. If the device syslog is very similar to Cisco then you may want to simply use the local7 facility and the syslog traps will be sent to /usr/local/nmis8/logs/cisco.log. Configure the nodes in question to send syslog to NMIS at the proper facility level. For this example we will use local6 for the newVendor switch. Typically facilities local0 through local7 are used for processing syslog from external nodes.
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