A method of collecting together message logs from many systems Each system sends short text messages to a syslog recorder The recording system may record these in any desired manner including writing them to a file, sending them on to other systems, and printing them out The PRX routers can send messages about important events to a syslog recorder This is configured by the GLOBAL SYSLOG command Syslog messages are transported by UDP datagrams sent to port 514
A distributed logging interface Originally written for UNIX, it has become a de facto standard for many network devices and is available for Windows NT