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User Guide for Resource Manager Essentials 4.1
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Chapter 14 Enabling and Tracking Syslogs Using Syslog Analyzer and Collector
Viewing Status and Subscribing to a Common Syslog Collector
Viewing Status and Subscribing to a Common Syslog Collector
Using the Syslog Collector Status dialog box you can:
• View the status of your Common Syslog Collector (see Viewing Common Syslog Collector Status).
• Subscribe to a Common Syslog Collector (see Subscribing to a Common Syslog Collector).
Note View the Permission Report (Common Services > Server > Reports) to check if you have the required
privileges to perform this task.
Viewing Common Syslog Collector Status
To view the status of the Common Syslog Collector to which the Syslog Analyzer is subscribed to,
follow this procedure:
Select Resource Manager Essentials > Tools > Syslog > Syslog Collector Status.
The Collector Status dialog box appears, with this information:
If you want to refresh the information in this dialog box, click Update.
If you have restarted the RME daemon manager, the Syslog Collector Status processes (under Resource
Manager Essentials > Tools > Syslog) may take 6-10 minutes to come up, after the Syslog Analyze
processes come up. In this interval you may see the following message:
Collector Status is currently not available.
Check if the SyslogAnalyzer process is running normally.
Wait for the Syslog Collector status process to come up and try again.
To subscribe to a Common Syslog Collector using the Subscribe button, see Subscribing to a Common
Syslog Collector.
Column Description
Name Hostname or the IP address of the host on which the Collector is installed.
Forwarded Number of forwarded Syslog messages
Invalid Number of invalid Syslog messages.
Filtered Number of filtered messages. Filters are defined with the option Message Filters option (see Defining Message
Filters.)
Dropped Number of Syslog messages dropped.
Received Number of Syslog messages received.
Up Time Time duration for which the Syslog Collector has been up.
Update Time Date and time of the last update.
Time and time zone are those of the CiscoWorks Server.