Escalation with syslog

 
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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,

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      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.

       

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