Supported Platforms
Directing Messages to a Remote Destination from the Routing Matrix Based on the TX Matrix Router
You can configure a routing matrix composed of a TX Matrix router and T640 routers to direct system logging messages to a remote machine or the other Routing Engine on each router, just as on a single-chassis system. Include the host statement at the [edit system syslog] hierarchy level on the TX Matrix router:
The TX Matrix router directs messages to a remote machine or the other Routing Engine in the same way as a single-chassis system, and the optional statements (explicit-priority, facility-override, log-prefix, match, and source-address) also have the same effect as on a single-chassis system. For more information, see Directing System Log Messages to a Remote Machine or the Other Routing Engine.
For the TX Matrix router to include priority information when it directs messages that originated on a T640 router to the remote destination, you must also include the explicit-priority statement at the [edit system syslog host scc-master] hierarchy level.
The other-routing-engine statement does not interact with message forwarding from the T640 routers to the TX Matrix router. For example, if you include the statement in the configuration for the Routing Engine in slot 0 (re0), the re0 Routing Engine on each T640 router sends messages to the re1 Routing Engine on its platform only. It does not also send messages directly to the re1 Routing Engine on the TX Matrix router.
Because the configuration on the TX Matrix router applies to the T640 routers, any T640 router that has interfaces for direct access to the Internet also directs messages to the remote machine. The consequences include the following:
- If the T640 routers are configured to forward messages to the TX Matrix router (as in the default configuration), the remote machine receives two copies of some messages: one directly from the T640 router and the other from the TX Matrix router. Which messages are duplicated depends on whether the severities are the same for local logging and for forwarded messages. For more information, see Configuring Message Forwarding to the TX Matrix Router.
- If the source-address statement is configured at the [edit system syslog] hierarchy level, all routers in the routing matrix report the same source address in messages directed to the remote machine. This is appropriate, because the routing matrix functions as a single router.
- If the log-prefix statement is included, the messages from all routers in the routing matrix include the same text string. You cannot use the string to distinguish between the routers in the routing matrix.
