There are different ways to view and track how your systems are operating. Logging is a basic method of keeping records of actions taken by a network device. Most operating systems have some type of logging function. In linux, these log files are mostly processed with syslog. Syslog supports logging to remote hosts, which is useful if a system fails and local logs aren’t available. IOS and Windows take some work to get them to use the same feature. By … Continue reading Monitoring Events with Syslog