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 (User Datagram Protocol) as its underlying transport layer mechanism. The UDP port that has been assigned to
syslog is 514. (RFC 3164)
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