Cisco Nexus 5600 Series - Configuring the Syslog as an EEM Publisher

Procedure
PurposeCommand or Action
Enters global configuration mode.switch# configure terminal
Step 1
Displays information about the system policy that you
want to override, including thresholds. Use the show
switch(config)# show event manager
policy-state system-policy
Step 2
event manager system-policy command to find the
system policy names.
Overrides a system policy and enters applet configuration
mode. The applet-name can be any case-sensitive,
switch(config)# event manager applet
applet-name override system-policy
Step 3
alphanumeric string up to 29 characters. The
system-policy must be one of the existing system policies.
(Optional)
Configures a descriptive string for the policy. The string
can be any alphanumeric string up to 80 characters.
Enclose the string in quotation marks.
switch(config-applet)# description
policy-description
Step 4
Configures the event statement for the policy. See the
“Configuring Event Statements” section on page 14-10.
switch(config-applet)# event
event-statement
Step 5
Configures an action statement for the policy. See the
“Configuring Action Statements” section on page 14-13.
switch(config-applet)# action number
action-statement
Step 6
Repeat Step 6 for multiple action statements.
(Optional)
Displays information about the configured policy.
switch(config-applet)# show event
manager policy-state name
Step 7
Saves this configuration change.switch(config-applet)# copy
running-config startup-config
Step 8
This example shows how to override a policy:
switch# configure terminal
switch(config)# show event manager policy-state _ethpm_link_flap
Policy _ethpm_link_flap
cfg count : 5
cfg time interval : 10.000000 (seconds)
Hash default, Count 0
switch(config)# event manager applet ethport override _ethpm_link_flap
switch(config-applet)# description "Overrides link flap policy"
switch(config-applet)# event policy-default count 2 time 1000
switch(config-applet)# action 1.0 syslog priority warnings msg "Link is flapping."
switch(config-applet)# show event manager policy-state ethport
switch(config-applet)# copy running-config startup-config
Configuring the Syslog as an EEM Publisher
You can monitor syslog messages from the switch.
Cisco Nexus 5600 Series NX-OS System Management Configuration Guide, Release 7.x
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Configuring EEM
Configuring the Syslog as an EEM Publisher