Manual Chapter : Creating a publisher to send log messages to the local Syslog database

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BIG-IP AFM

  • 17.1.0, 17.0.0, 16.1.5, 16.1.4, 16.1.3, 16.1.2, 16.1.1, 16.1.0, 16.0.1, 16.0.0, 15.1.10, 15.1.9, 15.1.8, 15.1.7, 15.1.6, 15.1.5, 15.1.4, 15.1.3, 15.1.2, 15.1.1, 15.1.0
Manual Chapter

Creating a publisher to send log messages to the local Syslog database

Create a publisher to specify that the BIG-IP system sends formatted log messages to the local Syslog database, on the BIG-IP system.
  1. On the Main tab, click
    System
    Logs
    Configuration
    Log Publishers
    .
    The Log Publishers screen opens.
  2. Click
    Create
    .
  3. In the
    Name
    field, type a unique, identifiable name for this publisher.
  4. For the
    Destinations
    setting, select the previously created destination from the
    Available
    list (which formats the logs in the Splunk format and forwards the logs to the local Syslog database) and move the destination to the
    Selected
    list.
  5. Click
    Finished
    .