New Training: Management Options to Improve Security

In this 5-video skill, CBT Nuggets trainer Keith Barker describes methods for improving security Watch this new Cisco training.

Watch the full course: Implementing and Operating Cisco Security Core Technologies

This training includes:

• 5 videos

• 24 minutes of training

You’ll learn these topics in this skill:

• Introduction to Secure Network Management

• Overview of Secure Management

• Syslog Overview

• NTP with Authentication

• Change Control

What is Syslog?

Syslog is a message logging protocol that allows devices and applications to send information relating to things such as status, events and diagnostics. Each syslog message carries a severity level, which ranges from 0 (the highest severity, indicating an emergency) to 7 (the lowest, indicating a debugging message). Syslog events triggered by one router can differ greatly than those triggered by another, making managing messages difficult.

Devices and applications send messages to syslog servers, which collect, manage and interpret them before issuing alerts and notifications. These servers can be software, embedded virtual machines (VMs) and even hardware appliances. Syslog servers often accept SNMP (Simple Network Management Protocol) data, too.

Syslog sends messages through the User Data Protocol (UDP) on port numbers 514 and 601.