Alternate and auxiliary Syslog destinations

The Primary Destination Address and Destination Port directives, discussed previously, have special properties. Both of these values must be at the top of the file, and you cannot reconfigure them remotely. (You must edit these values by hand, such as with the Setup Wizard, or via the Agent Configuration tool.)

An administrator can add AuxAddress directives to the file to send the syslog message information to other locations. Zero to eight of these directives (with IP address values) can be added to the configuration file, and any messages generated by the agent program are sent to these addresses.

The AuxAddress value does allow remote configuration but does not encrypt the syslog messages. The value extends the role of the agent to include other syslog collectors (including other BMC Defender Servers) as part of the collection strategy.

Example

The AuxAddress value can be used to send messages to a failover device, a redundant collector, or a different department within the enterprise.

To disable this function, remove the AuxAddress directive, or set the value to a non-valid address, such as –1.

 

Tip: For faster searching, add an asterisk to the end of your partial query. Example: cert*