> -----Original Message----- > From: fedora-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx > [mailto:fedora-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Robin Laing > Sent: Wednesday, March 08, 2006 11:42 AM > To: For users of Fedora Core releases > Subject: Re: Probably silly Q > > Roger Heflin wrote: > >>>Ok, I've inserted that line in services thats needed for > >> > >>that to work, > >> > >>>syslog 514/udp > >>> > >>>And added the -r option to OPTIONS in the syslog file in > >>>/etc/sysconfig, SIGHUPed syslogd, and turned the routers > >> > >>forwarding of > >> > >>>the access log to the main 192.168.x.x address of that > >> > >>machine. But > >> > >>>nothing is appearing in either all.log or any other log > >> > >>with a recent timestamp. > >> > >>>Did I miss something? Or is the linksys BEFSR41 routers > logging to > >>>some other unk (udp/tcp) port besides 514? > >> > >>---- > >>Let's keep this on list OK? > >> > >>Firewall on Linux system blocking port 514 protocol UDP? > >> > >>Logging will go into /var/log/messages unless you redirect it via > >>syslog.conf # man syslog.conf > >> > > > > > > Linksys sends snmptraps to the snmptrap port (161) (man snmptrapd) > > this is a standard service that will listen to this port and do > > whatever is configured with the data (save it to syslog, or to > > elsewhere, and/or even execute scripts to process the > incomming data), > > it can be checkconfig'ed on and will put the messages into > whatever > > is configured by snmptrapd. > > > > I have been using it for years on both Windows and Linux. > snmptraps > > are os independent, where as syslog in typically unix only. > > > > You can also set the ip address to send it to, to be .255 > and it will > > nicely broadcast on your local subnet. > > > > Roger > > > > I didn't know that it was snmp that was used. When I looked > into it I was continuously told that I needed special > software. I didn't know about ethereal or tcdump at that time. > > Then any management software that reads snmptraps should get > the data. > Then the answer to the OP would be any snmp monitoring > program, correct? What software do you use? > > I don't know much about snmp past the basics. > snmptrapd see "man snmptrapd", if it is not installed add it, it comes default on a full fc4 install. Roger
