My CISCO Journal

SYSLOG server Configuration in GNS3:

We are going to configured R1 in GNS3, and using the WhatsUp Gold SYSLOG manager to collect all the logging information from R1. WhatsUP gold SYSLOG manager is a free tool and you can download it after a brief registration on WhatsUP Gold website.  

We are using below mentioned topology for our LAB:

First of all, we enable logging severity level 7 on our router (R1):

R1(config)#Logging console 7

This will enable all sorts of logging on the router. Now let's store all this logging information in our logging buffer:

R1(config)#Logging buffered 7

It's better to specify logging buffer size too. Okay, one other thing, I would like to show you here , is the logging options available on Cisco routers:

( more stuff will be coming soon :) )