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Syslog Facilities

Syslog Facilities

Cody_Roche
New Contributor
I am configuring syslog on an X440G2. I don't understand what facilities are. From what I understand, they are different levels of information such as Errors, Critical, Warning, Informative. But I can't find any documentation that says what each local stands for. All the documentation just uses on or the other, but never explains what they are. Can anyone provide insight?
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Drew_C
Valued Contributor III
Great question and great answers! I believe we can write up a GTAC Knowledge article on this topic.

Stephane_Grosj1
Extreme Employee
Hi, I think you want to read that: https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc3164#section-4.1.1

Yes, that's correct.

Another reason for having configurable syslog facilities is to integrate a new switch into an existing setup that already chose one of the localX facilities.

Okay, so it doesn't matter what I choose at the switch level? It is just a matter of grouping logs from "these" switches into one group, and "those" switches into another group, but at the log server level?
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