The CSPC described is an Cisco appliance and stands for Common Services Platform Collector. It is a SNMP-based tool that discovers and collects
information from the Cisco devices installed on your network.

Rsyslog is a logging service for Linux and comes preinstalled by default on Linux distros, The definition of Rsyslog “the rocket-fast system for log processing” is a more stronger syslog daemon.

And we can use the Rsyslog daemon to monitor the CSPC appliance.

Side Note! Before we continue you’ll need both your collectorlogin and root password of the CSPC. If you lost them or they expired its fairly easy to reset.
You will still be able to access the “admin” CLI user and use pwdreset command.


Use SSH to connect to your CSPC (Use Putty or another SSH client your used to) and hopefully we can log in to the CSPC with our collectorlogin account. Now switch to the root account using the command “su” and you’re ready to adjust some rsyslog settings.

The file its all about is magically called rsyslog.conf, we can open it using the comand:
nano /etc/rsyslog.conf

Don’t get scared by the size of the configuration file because everything in the file is explained, the best part is you only have to adjust the IP address at the bottom of the file to make the rsyslog working.

Another Side Note! If you would like to use the TCP Protocol to send the logging, use 2x @@ before the IP address, for UDP use 1x @.

You can use the command systemctl status rsyslog to check if there are any errors or if everything is working well.

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