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Need help with proper racadm syntax for setting up syslog
Hello follow Dell users!
I searched this community, google and read the manual but it still not clear to me what the syntax is to update the syslog settings on the iDrac's on about 30 R620 servers I have.
I am referencing this:
https://topics-cdn.dell.com/pdf/idrac7-8-lifecycle-controller-v2606060_cli-guide_en-us.pdf
But when I type this:
racadm getconfig -g cfgRemoteHosts
I get this:
ERROR: Invalid group name specified.
Is there a higher level group I am missing? From reading the manual I would think this would work:
racadm config -g cfgRemoteHosts -o cfgRhostsSyslogEnable=1 -o cfgRhostsSyslogServer1=my.syslogservercom
My goal is to enable and setup the iDrac's syslog to go to
my.syslogserver.com
Any clarification or guidance would be helpful.
Kind Regards,
Shmac
Dell-DylanJ
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December 19th, 2018 12:00
Hello,
This is the output I get from that command. My test system was on iDRAC firmware 2.60.60.60. The webgui or racadm getsysinfo should provide your iDRAC version.
As for setting up a remote syslog, have you checked the web GUI at Overview > Server > Logs > Settings? You can configure it there.
DELL-Shine K
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December 19th, 2018 19:00
Can you confirm iDRAC FW version?
Below commands can be used to set Remote Sys Log server in iDRAC
racadm config -g cfgRemoteHosts -o cfgRhostsSyslogEnable Enabled
racadm config -g cfgRemoteHosts -o cfgRhostsSyslogServer1 my.syslogserver.com
DELL-Rey G
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December 20th, 2018 08:00
my bad, the guide is correct, page 147
cfgRhostsSyslogEnable (Read or Write) Table 131.
Details of attribute - cfgRhostsSyslogEnable
Description To allow the RAC and SEL logs to be written to up to three remote syslog servers Enables or disables remote syslog.
Legal Values • 1 (TRUE) • 0 (FALSE) Default 0
DELL-Rey G
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December 20th, 2018 08:00
looks like the guide is wrong, the actual command is:
racadm config -g cfgRemoteHosts -o cfgRhostsSyslogEnable 1
shmac
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December 20th, 2018 08:00
So weird I thought I posted this last night.
And the error I get:
shmac
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December 21st, 2018 09:00
So actually it is wrong because I just tried this and it worked!!!
So who do we contact to update the doc?
shmac
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December 21st, 2018 09:00
And here is the final confirmation: