TABLE OF CONTENTS Remote access can extend the boundary of your network, but monitoring and managing your infrastructure cannot simply stop at your ISP router. Whether you are required to sustain records of user activity by regulation or are just trying to troubleshoot an issue, logging is an excellent tool to help provide valuable information to your organization. The IVE provides numerous facilities to perform log related tasks and also provides you with filtering, archiving, and download capabilities for log review and management.
Beyond the on-box mechanisms to process system events and user activity, the IVE also provides a robust SNMP polling facility, syslog log exporting, and system resource monitoring. These features are essential for ensuring that system availability is as high as possible, and they provide you with plenty of information to help keep track of the state of your IVE.
We discuss some third-party reporting tools that can help simplify device management while providing you with historical reporting, event alerting, and long-term log storage.
The IVE maintains different log files for different log categories. Each log type is broken down into an intuitive category, which will make your job of investigating IVE events much easier. In this section, we review the different log categories and the information that is contained in the different logs. A thorough understanding of where different logs are stored is essential to help quickly identify system events, user activity, and assist in other trouble-shooting tasks. Juniper also provides additional facilities, such as...
