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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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flicky2000_1616
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Oct 22, 2014

Thanks for the input. Accepted that HSL is not actually using the syslog daemon. But ultimately the HSL config sends messages to our external syslog server fine. And SMTP alerts from F5 to our external SMTP relay work fine (nothing to do with HSL). So the question phrased differently is - can we not use HSL and SMTP email alerts at the same time? Thanks