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description
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Enable Syslog Server
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Select this to have the NSA accept syslog logs from syslog clients. Clear it to stop the NSA from accepting syslog logs from syslog clients.
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Log Location
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Click View Files to browse to where you want to store the syslog logs on the NSA.
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Shares
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Select the share in which to store the syslog logs.
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Path
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Use this if you want to further specify a folder within the share. This field displays the share folder's path. Type the location of the folder using forward slashes as branch separators or use Browse to find or create a folder on the NSA.
After you click Apply in the Syslog Server screen the NSA creates a folder for the current month's logs. The folder's name uses the year and month in YYYYMM format.
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Purge Policy
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Select Enable Purge Policy and set a number of months in the Log Deletion Interval field that displays to have the NSA delete the syslog messages after keeping them for the specified period of time.
Regardless of how you set the purge policy, to save hard disk space the NSA archives the syslog logs in a .tgz file on the second day of each month and deletes the original folder and syslog files. The NSA creates a new folder for the syslog logs it receives after that. You can use a zip program such as 7-zip to open the archives.
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Log Format
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Select the format you want to use for recording the received logs.
The Example item below the drop-down list boxes displays how the selected custom format looks. For example, if you select Full Date, the individual log entries would display with something like 2009 May 13 17:15:51 in front of them.
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Apply
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Click this to save your changes.
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Reset
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Click this to restore the screen's last-saved settings.
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