How To Configure A Cisco Router Or Switch to Send Logs To A SysLog Server

If you would like to configure you Cisco Router or switch to send all it’s logs to a SysLog server all you have to do is to type a few command that will tell the router\switch to send the logs to the server.

To do that:

Log to the router \ switch and type (in this example I used a switch):

SWITCH# Config t
SWITCH(config)#logging 172.40.51.44   — SysLog IP address
SWITCH(config)#logging trap notifications  — What do you want to send
SWITCH(config)#logging source-interface ?   — Interface that will send the logs
  Async              Async interface
  Auto-Template      Auto-Template interface
  BVI                Bridge-Group Virtual Interface
  CTunnel            CTunnel interface
  Dialer             Dialer interface
  Filter             Filter interface
  Filtergroup        Filter Group interface
  GigabitEthernet    GigabitEthernet IEEE 802.3z
  GroupVI            Group Virtual interface
  Lex                Lex interface
  Loopback           Loopback interface
  Null               Null interface
  Port-channel       Ethernet Channel of interfaces
  Portgroup          Portgroup interface
  Pos-channel        POS Channel of interfaces
  Tunnel             Tunnel interface
  Vif                PGM Multicast Host interface
  Virtual-Template   Virtual Template interface
  Virtual-TokenRing  Virtual TokenRing
  Vlan               Catalyst Vlans
  fcpa               Fiber Channel

SWITCH(config)#logging source-interface vlan2�
SWITCH(config)#exit
All done, don’t forget to save the config.

ROUTER(config)#copy run start.


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