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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?

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 24, 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.