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Set Up the Berkeley syslog daemon

Event Management takes advantage of the powerful messaging facilities that the Berkeley syslog daemon provides that can be used to:

• Select from several priorities, levels, and facilities of messages
• Route messages by level or priority to different devices
• Route messages by level or priority to different hosts
• Receive messages from other hosts for local display

The Berkeley syslog daemon configuration options are specified in the file /etc/syslogd.conf in the following format:

selector	action

• selector identifies the type of message.
• action is the location where the selector is sent.

Note: For more information about the Berkeley syslog daemon, see the IBM z/OS Communications Server IP Configuration Guide.