On Tue, Jun 12, 2018 at 12:45 PM Adams, Anne (DTI) <[email protected]> wrote:
> Greetings all, > > Has anyone attempted to capture messages written to the syslog daemon (ie. > syslog.log)? We have a network monitoring tool that can give us the status > and availability of servers on our network. I'd like the ability to write > to the system console but there doesn't appear to be a port associated with > it (and this product wants to write to a syslog service associated with a > port) so I'm writing to the SyslogD Server instead. When I check syslog.log > I will see the test messages but none of my monitoring software can "see" > those messages. Am I missing something or is this simply something that > cannot be done? Thanks. > Set up the configuration to write to the file: /dev/console . This will write the message to the z/OS SYSLOG or OPERLOG kern.* /dev/console would write all "kernal" messages to the SYSLOG. Doing the UNIX command: echo 'hello' >/dev/console caused the following to be written to SYSLOG: N 4000000 LIH1 18163 12:51:16.18 STC39143 00000094 BPXF024I (racfid) hello > > Anne R Adams, CISSP > DTI, Systems Engineering > Lead Mainframe Services Analyst > 302.739.9500 > -- A computer once beat me at chess, but it was no match for me at kick boxing. Emo Philips Maranatha! <>< John McKown ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
