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cdjac0bsen
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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?
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  • Lidev's avatar
    Lidev
    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

Lidev's avatar
Lidev
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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

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    cdjac0bsen
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    Apr 24, 2020

    ​That worked perfectly, thanks!  The events even show up in the GUI.