Avaya maintains a local syslog on the server to facilitate debugging, regardless of whether the customer chooses to log information to an external server.
Customers need to send parts or all of the log information to an external server in real time for a variety of reasons.
The syslog service allows customers to send data from certain logs or log groups to an external server without disturbing Avaya’s method for saving logs locally.
General syslog guidelines details what syslog contains, file synchronization options, and firewall activity for the syslog server.
Administering the syslog server in Messaging helps you configure the Messaging syslog server.