Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN Control Components and Device Management Guide, Releases 26.x and Later

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Viewing system log information

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Describes how to access and review system log data for monitoring and diagnostic purposes, using SD-WAN Manager or using CLI commands.


View system log information, using SD-WAN Manager or using CLI commands.


View system logs using SD-WAN Manager

System logging records a text log of system events.

Before you begin

In SD-WAN Manager, in Administration > Settings, enable Data Stream.

View device-specific system log (syslog) files in Cisco SD-WAN Manager.

Procedure

1.

From the Cisco SD-WAN Manager menu, choose Monitor > Devices.

In Cisco vManage Release 20.6.x and earlier, choose Monitor > Network.

2.

Select a device.

3.

Click Troubleshooting.

4.

In the Logs section, click Debug Log.

5.

From Log Files, select the name of a log file to view the log information.


Viewing system log information using CLI commands

You can use these CLI commands to view system log (log) information.

Viewing system log settings

To view system log settings after logging system log messages to a remote host, use the show logging command.

Host(config-server-192.168.0.1)# show logging
System logging
    server 192.168.0.1
    source interface eth0
    exit
!
!

Viewing system log files

To view the contents of the system log file, use the show log command.

Host(config-server-192.168.0.1)# show log nms/vmanage-syslog.log tail 10