---
title: "Sending Alarms to a Syslog Server"
slug: "sending-alarms-to-a-syslog-server-tg"
tags: ["5.5"]
updated: 2026-10-27T23:00:54Z
published: 2026-10-27T23:00:54Z
canonical: "docs.vastdata.com/sending-alarms-to-a-syslog-server-tg"
---

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# Sending Alarms to a Syslog Server

You can configure VAST Cluster to send event alarms to a syslog service running on any remote Linux host. To do this, you need to enable the communication protocol on the syslog service and configure the VMS syslog settings.

- [Configuring VMS Syslog Settings](/docs-5-5/docs/sending-alarms-to-a-syslog-server-tg#configuring-vms-syslog-settings)
- [Syslog Event Example](/docs-5-5/docs/sending-alarms-to-a-syslog-server-tg#syslog-event-example)

## Configuring VMS Syslog Settings

To configure the VMS to send events to syslog:

- To configure syslog server settings using the VAST Web UI, see [Default Notification Actions](/docs-5-5/docs/managing-alarms-and-events-from-the-vast-web-ui-tg#default-notification-actions)
- To configure syslog server settings using the VAST CLI, run `eventdefinitionconfig modify`. For example:

```plaintext
eventdefinitionconfig modify --syslog-host 192.0.2.0 --syslog-port 514 --syslog-protocol udp --enable-actions
```

> [!NOTE]
> Note
> 
> In this example, the option `--enable-actions` enables all configured default actions including syslog. They are enabled by default, but can be disabled. To view the current configuration and status of all default alarm actions, run `eventdefinitionconfig show` or `eventdefinitionconfig list`.

## Syslog Event Example

An example VAST Cluster event written to the syslog server:

```plaintext
2020-05-20T08:20:09.619086+00:00 v2cn1 vast_event AUDIT - VMS - Manager: admin, create monitor
```