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flicky2000_1616
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Oct 22, 2014

Syslog & SMTP Alert question

Hi - we had SMTP alerts setup and working in our new test F5s (by altering ssmtp.conf & alertd.conf). Worked fine. We then setup syslog via the configuration utility (created syslog server in pool, c...
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gsharri
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Oct 22, 2014

The log filter/destination/publisher config refers High Speed Logging (HSL) not the syslog process. Any message handled by HSL is not seen by syslog or alertd so BIGIP cannot send traps or smtp alert. If you want to use HSL then alerting must be handled by the remote server that is receiving the messages.