Cisco ASA

Cisco ASA

Cisco ASA using Command Line Interface

  1. Telnet to the ASA firewall and enter the enable mode

  2. Type the following:

configure terminal logging enable logging timestamp logging trap informational logging device-id {context-name | hostname | ipaddress interface_name | string text} logging host interface_name syslog_ip [udp/<syslog_port>]

interface_name

is the interface on the ASA Firewall whose logs need to be analyzed (for example: "inside" or "outside").

syslog_ip

is the IP address of the Log Collector to which the Firewall should send the Syslogs.

udp/<syslog_port>

indicates that logs will be sent using the UDP protocol, to the configured syslog portarrow-up-right on the syslog server. If left blank, logs will be sent to the default UDP port 514. Check Appendix A for default port list.

hostname

firewall's host name (defined with the hostname configuration command)

ipaddress interface_name

the IP address of a specific firewall interface named interface_name (for example: "inside" or "outside")

string text

an arbitrary text string (up to 16 characters)

context-name

in PIX 7.x or FWSM 2.x operating in multiple-context mode, the name of the firewall context can also be sent.

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