The SYSLOG protocol uses certain designations for message sources, the so-called facilities. Each internal source in the devices that can generate a SYSLOG message must therefore be assigned to a SYSLOG facility.
The standard mapping can be changed, if necessary. In this way you can, for example, send all SYSLOG messages from a device with a specific facility (Local7). It is thus possible to collect all messages in a common log file by configuring the SYSLOG client appropriately.
Under in the section SYSLOG under Facility mapping, the internal sources can be assigned to the corresponding SYSLOG facilities.
Messages from the device are mapped to a facility, so that the SYSLOG client can write them to a special log file without any additional effort.
All facilities are set to 'local7'. Under Linux, the file /etc/syslog.conf with the entry
local7.* /var/log/lancom.log
writes all of the device output to the file /var/log/lancom.log.
