to tell NMIS that you want its escalation messages sent by syslog, you'll have to change the notification entry for a particular level to include syslog:<somehostname>
or syslog:<ip address>
, e.g. "syslog:localhost
".
NMIS will then send these notifications via the syslog protocol to the given target address or hostname.
naturally this requires that the server you're sending these to has a syslog daemon installed and configured for incoming network connections. the former is normal for typical linux/unix systems, the latter is not and usually requires a bit of reconfiguration of the syslog daemon in question, and that any firewalls inbetween the sending and receiving systems allow UDP packets to port 514.
Hi everyone ,
I wanna change the notification mean from email to syslog, i know that i should change it in setup>email, Notification and Escalation. but is changing mai:contact1 for example to syslog is sufficient or i i have to install a syslog server by myself and configure NMIS to use it.
My best regards,