About this task

When communicating to the local syslog server from Primary EPM, ensure that the Primary EPM is configured to listen on port 514 over UDP.

Procedure

  1. Go to your Primary EPM Server.
  2. Open the vi /etc/rsyslog.conf file.
  3. Look for the following lines and ensure that they are not commented out:

    For RHEL 7:

    # Provides UDP syslog reception

    $ModLoad imudp

    $UDPServerRun 514

    For RHEL 8:

    # Provides UDP syslog reception

    # for parameters see http://www.rsyslog.com/doc/imudp.html

    module(load="imudp") # needs to be done just once

    input(type="imudp" port="514")