System Logging

The tolt system logging line item is used for requesting an archive of the current log.

Tolt system logging collect-logs action 

• Command Path – tolt>system>logging>
• Module – tolt
• Container – system
• Action – logging
• Types – 
  • collect-logs – Action to collect all the log files, and create a tgz file of them and make them available to users.
  • filename – The filename to give the log file.  Do not include an extension, it will be added by the log collection

    • string

  • remote-url – If using sftp to push logs to a remote site, specify the sftp url in a format acceptable to curl.

    •  string

  • username – The username to use when authenticating to an sftp server for log push. 

    •  string

  • password – The password to use when authenticating to an sftp server for log push..

    •  string

System Logging Action Local File Example 

The following example will show how to create an archive of the logs in a local sftp directory on the BOLT. 

1. From the MDS1-ESUA# command line, input tolt system logging collect-logs filename test1 and press Enter. 
2. Output similar to the following is displayed:
    

   MDS1-ESUA# tolt system logging collect-logs filename test1 <enter> action-success true MDS1-ESUA# _

System Logging Action Remote sftp Example 

The following example will show how to perform a remote push of the logs to an sftp server.  Note that typically an explicit file path is required and the URL needs to terminate with a slash.   

1. From the MDS1-ESUA# command line, input tolt system logging collect-logs filename test1 remote-url sftp://172.28.152.30/home_dir/lbob/ username test-user password ************, and press Enter. 
2. Output similar to the following is displayed:
    

   MDS1-ESUA# tolt system logging collect-logs filename test remote-url sftp://172.28.152.30/home_dir/usern/ username test-user password ************ <enter> action-success true MDS1-ESUA# _