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Subrun's avatar
Subrun
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Jun 16, 2020

Need to verify if F5 is sending logs to Syslog Server for local1 Facility

With the syslog setting as below how can i confirm it will send the APM related logs to remote syslog server ? This doc ( https://support.f5.com/csp/article/K15521451 ) says Local1 facility will c...
application delivery
BIG-IP Access Policy Manager (APM)
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Lidev's avatar
Lidev
Icon for Nacreous rankNacreous
Jun 16, 2020

Hi Subrun,

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

logger -p <facility>.<level> "<descriptive message>" and after check if the event appears in /var/log/apm.

 

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

 

Regards