syslog
A protocol used for the
transmission of event notification messages across networks, originally developed on the
University of California Berkeley Software Distribution (BSD) TCP/IP system implementations,
and now embedded in many other operating systems and networked devices. A device generates a
messages, a relay receives and forwards the messages, and a collector (a syslog server)
receives the messages without relaying them.
syslog uses the UDP as its underlying
transport layer mechanism. The UDP port that has been assigned to syslog is 514. (RFC
3164)