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Nimbostratus

Apr 23, 2020

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Help simulating ASM syslog events at error level and above for testing?

Does anyone have a suggestion on how to generate system events on an ASM at error, critical, or emergency levels for testing remote syslog logging?

Lidev

Apr 23, 2020

Hi,

you can use the logger command to generate a log message manually

logger -p <facility>.<level> "<descriptive message>"

[admin@F5BIPIP:Active:In Sync] ~ # logger -p local0.notice "testing LTM facility level notice"
[admin@F5BIPIP:Active:In Sync] ~ # tail -f /var/log/ltm
Apr 24 08:16:14 F5BIPIP notice admin[29591]: testing LTM facility notice

More details here : https://support.f5.com/csp/article/K86480148

Regards

2 Replies

Lidev
Nacreous
Apr 23, 2020
Hi,
you can use the logger command to generate a log message manually
logger -p <facility>.<level> "<descriptive message>"
[admin@F5BIPIP:Active:In Sync] ~ # logger -p local0.notice "testing LTM facility level notice" [admin@F5BIPIP:Active:In Sync] ~ # tail -f /var/log/ltm Apr 24 08:16:14 F5BIPIP notice admin[29591]: testing LTM facility notice
More details here : https://support.f5.com/csp/article/K86480148
Regards
- cdjac0bsen
  Nimbostratus
  Apr 24, 2020
  That worked perfectly, thanks! The events even show up in the GUI.