Optional parameters for CO-sysmsg.cnf

AuxAddress

You can include zero or more AuxAddress parameters as part of the header. This parameter specifies an auxiliary address that receives syslog messages generated by the agent. The AuxAddress value does allow remote configuration and does not encrypt the syslog messages. To disable this function, remove the AuxAddress parameter, or set the value to a non-valid address, such as –1.

MessagePrefix

This is a single word that is prefixed to any messages that the system sends. If you omit this parameter, the message is not prefixed by any special text. You can use this to distinguish the messages, such as by placing a keyword, the device name, the organization, or some other keyword at the beginning of any message.

MsgDelayMsecs

This is an integer number in the range 10–5000, that indicates the number of milliseconds to wait after sending a message. This is a way to throttle the number of messages that can be sent, that range from 100 per second to only 12 per minute. This prevents any single syslog process from flooding a syslog message receiver. The default value, if this parameter gets omitted, is 10 Msecs.

MarkerMessage

This value is the content of a syslog message that is issued periodically to the receiving program, useful for generating a ''heartbeat''. The value is ignored unless the value of MarkerMinutes (described further) is set to a positive integer value. The message must be under 256 characters and can contain static text. The message can also contain environmental variables (delimited by % characters), date and time specification, or both. By default, no periodic syslog message is sent. You should use this parameter only with BMC Version 3.5.1 or later.

MarkerMinutes

This value is an integer number in the range 1–65535 minutes, indicating how fast the MarkerMessage "heartbeat" is sent, if any. A value of zero or less disables the marker message (the default condition). To send a marker message, this parameter must exist in the configuration file, the value must be a positive integer value and the MarkerMessage must be defined. By default, no periodic syslog message gets sent. Remote configuration of this directive requires BMC Version 3.5.1 or later.

LogLocal

This value can set to either True or False. If the value is True, all syslog messages sent by the CO-sysmsg.exe program are also logged in the CO-sysmsg.log file (along with any error messages encountered by the program). This provides a simple way to verify whether UDP messages are needed to be dropped. Since the CO-sysmsg.log file restarts each time the service starts, the file does not grow without bounds. If this parameter gets omitted, it is interpreted to be False.

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