Measures reported by DeviceSyslogMsgs

A network node is a connection point that can receive, create, store or send data along distributed network routes. The network node can be a computer or some other device, such as a printer, and has a unique network address. Each network node - whether it is an endpoint for data transmission or a redistribution point - has either a programmed or engineered capability to recognize, process and forward transmissions to other network nodes. As the network nodes perform critical operations over the network, administrators connect the network nodes to a centralized Syslog server for logging different types of events occurring on the nodes. When an event occurs, a notification message about that event is sent to the Syslog server. This Syslog server stores these messages as log data in the Syslog file. Administrators set specific rules to segregate these messages in the Syslog file. By continuously monitoring the log data in the Syslog file with these specific rules, administrators would be able to figure out the information on all the events occurring on the node. Using this information, administrators can determine how well the nodes are behaving over the network and also figure out errors/warnings as soon as they occur on the node. The DeviceSyslogMsgs test helps administrators in determine the behavior of the node over the network!

This test auto-discovers the network nodes that are connected to the Syslog server, and for each network node, this test periodically checks the Syslog file of the Syslog server for a specific rule set by the administrator and reports the number of messages that match each rule. This way, administrators can be alerted to the errors/warnings triggered at each network node, and can initiate remedial measures before anything untoward happens.

Outputs of the test : One set of results for every rule:network node combination.

The measures made by this test are as follows: