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    Examples: Assigning an Alternative Facility

    Log all messages generated on the local routing platform at the error level or higher to the local0 facility on the remote machine called monitor.mycompany.com:

    [edit system syslog]
    host monitor.mycompany.com {
    	any error;
    	facility-override local0;
    }

    Configure routing platforms located in California and routing platforms located in New York to send messages to a single remote machine called central-logger.mycompany.com. The messages from California are assigned alternative facility local0 and the messages from New York are assigned to alternative facility local2.

    • Configure California routing platforms to aggregate messages in the local0 facility:
      [edit system syslog]
      host central-logger.mycompany.com {
      	change-log info;
      	facility-override local0;
      }
    • Configure New York routing platforms to aggregate messages in the local2 facility:
      [edit system syslog]
      host central-logger.mycompany.com {
      	change-log info;
      	facility-override local2;
      }

    On central-logger, you can then configure the system logging utility to write messages from the local0 facility to the file california-config and the messages from the local2 facility to the file new-york-config.

    Published: 2012-11-15