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Logging PIX and Kiwi SysLog

Syslog daemons are little programs that listen to syslog messages coming over the network over port 514UDP. When a message gets logged in the application, the daemon dumps it in a text file or a database for later use. Archiving and backuping your log is very important: they can be very useful to help you diagnostic a security problem or help with a legal one. To get started, we need to enable logging in your firewall, to do this follow these steps: 1- Log into your firewall 2- Enter those commands: firewallname> enable [enter enable password] firewallname# conf t firewallname(config)# logging on firewallname(config)# logging trap debugging firewallname(config)# logging host inside [ip of your syslog server] firewallname(config)# write mem You may also need to configure your pix to send a timestamp along with each message if your syslog server doesn't generate one itself. The command to generate a timestamp is: firewallname(config)# logging timestamp In this case we won't...