Syslog is the standard way network devices report events: interfaces going up or down, neighbors changing state, configuration changes, security violations and hardware problems. Messages can be kept locally or sent to a central syslog server, where they can be searched, correlated and kept for audit. ENCOR expects you to know the severity levels by number and name and how to configure where messages go.
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