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System Message Logging Servers

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Device Manager allows you to view event logs on your local PC as well as those on the switch. For a 
permanent record of all events that occur on the switch, you should store these messages off the switch. 
To do this the Cisco MDS 9000 Family switch must be configured to send syslog messages to your local 
PC and a syslog server must be running on that PC to receive those messages. These messages can be 
categorized into four classes:

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<a name="wp1306454"> </a><li class="pSmartList1">Hardware&#8212;Line card or power supply problems
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<a name="wp1306455"> </a><li class="pSmartList1">Link Incidents&#8212;FICON port condition changes
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<a name="wp1306456"> </a><li class="pSmartList1">Accounting&#8212;User change events
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<a name="wp1306457"> </a><li class="pSmartList1">Events&#8212;All other events
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<strong>Note	&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</strong> You should avoid using PCs that have IP addresses randomly assigned to them by DHCP. The switch 
continues to use the old IP address unless you manually change it; however, the Device Manager prompts 
you if it does detect this situation. UNIX workstations have a built-in syslog server. You must have root 
access (or run the Cisco syslog server as setuid to root) to stop the built-in syslog daemon and start the 
Cisco syslog server.

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