Oracle^® Advanced Services Gateway Security Guide

Using syslog Forwarding in Interactive Mode

After logging on to the Gateway user interface in interactive mode, you can access syslog forwarding by selecting 2.

To use syslog forwarding:

1. From the main menu, click 2.

   The syslog forwarding menu is displayed:

   1) Message Forward Status [enabled]

   2) session Message Forward [disabled]

   3) Host Port Number [8080]

   4) OEM Audit Message Forward [enabled]

   5) firewall Message Forward [disabled]

   6) UID/GID Mapping [enabled]

   7) Host IP Address [1.2.3.4]

   8) ssh Message Forward [enabled]

   9) Protocol Used to Forward [UDP]

   Choose an option (enter for main menu):

   The Gateway can forward various information to a remote syslog server. You can use the menu to change all the related settings. The current status of each setting is displayed.

2. (Optional) Click 1 to completely enable/disable the syslog forwarding feature.

3. (Optional) Click 2 to toggle whether to forward session related information.

4. (Optional) Click 3 to set the port of the remote syslog server.

5. (Optional) Click 4 to toggle whether to forward OEM audit-related information.

6. (Optional) Click 5 to toggle whether to forward firewall-related information.

7. (Optional) Click 6 to toggle whether to map UID to GID in outgoing messages.

8. (Optional) Click 7 to set the IP address of the remote syslog server.

9. (Optional) Click 8 to toggle whether to forward SSH-related information.

10. (Optional) Click 9 to toggle the protocol used to forward syslogs between the UDP and TCP protocols.