In this blog entry I will outline the steps you need to take on your Cisco Router or Catalyst device to configure syslog logging.

If you are configuring a Cisco Router for syslog logging then please follow the steps below:

1. In order to ensure that logging is enabled, issue the logging on command.

Router(config)# logging on

2. In order to specify the Essentials server that is to receive the router syslog messages, issue the logging ip_address command. ip_address is the address of the server that collects the syslog messages.

Router(config)# logging 1.1.1.1

This blog entry Im writing with the intention of being short and to the point on how to backup your HPUX system. For additional information or more in depth options and so on, please consult the URLs listed at the bottom of this entry.

If you have root access to the machine then you can use the fbackup utility to backup your data. It is best to first boot the machine in single user mode so that no services are running and the bare minimum of processes are active because the fbackup utility will not back up files that are open or locked by any process.

So now make sure the device which you are backing your data up to is properly connected and turned on. Then use the fbackup command like so:

fbackup –f /dev/mymedia –i /

If you have worked with AIX you may have come across the term HACMP (High Availability Cluster Multi-Processing). This is IBM’s solution for high-availability clusters. One of the first things to understand about HACMP is heartbeating, which I will discuss in this blog post.