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nik_65678
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Apr 05, 2010

setting up syslog?

i've looked through the docs for info on logging to a remote syslog server via udp, everything i've tried results in the same error - anyone have any ideas? b syslog remote server x.x.x.x ...
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nik_65678
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Apr 20, 2010
bumping - just got around to working on this again. logging works fine but my issue is my big-ip sends the syslog message with a hostname of "local" which doesn't really help a lot for reporting and searching.. any ideas on how to change that? 

+---------+-------+----------+----------+--------+-------------+------------+----------+---------------------------+
| id      | host  | facility | priority | level  | program     | date       | time     | message                   |
+---------+-------+----------+----------+--------+-------------+------------+----------+---------------------------+
| 6277214 | local | user     | notice   | notice | notice root | 2010-04-20 | 11:11:03 | notice root: test message | 
+---------+-------+----------+----------+--------+-------------+------------+----------+---------------------------+