Cisco ASA Series - Sending Syslog Messages to an E-mail Address

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Cisco ASA Series CLI Configuration Guide
Chapter 1 Configuring Logging
Configuring Logging
Sending Syslog Messages to an E-mail Address
To send syslog messages to an e-mail address, perform the following steps:
logging ftp-bufferwrap
Example:
hostname(config)# logging ftp-bufferwrap
When saving the buffer content to another location,
the ASA and ASASM create log files with names that
use the following time-stamp format:
LOG-YYYY-MM-DD-HHMMSS.TXT
where YYYY is the year, MM is the month, DD is the
day of the month, and HHMMSS is the time in hours,
minutes, and seconds.
The ASA and ASASM continue saving new messages
to the internal log buffer and saves the full log buffer
content to an FTP server.
logging ftp-server server path username password
Example:
hostname(config)# logging ftp-server 10.1.1.1
/syslogs logsupervisor 1luvMy10gs
Identifies the FTP server on which you want to store
log buffer content. The server argument specifies the
IP address of the external FTP server. The path
argument specifies the directory path on the FTP
server where the log buffer data is to be saved. This
path is relative to the FTP root directory. The
username argument specifies a username that is valid
for logging into the FTP server. The password
argument indicates the password for the username
specified.
logging savelog [savefile]
Example:
hostname(config)# logging savelog latest-logfile.txt
Saves the current log buffer content to the internal
flash memory.
Command Purpose
Command Purpose
Step 1
logging mail {severity_level | message_list}
Example:
hostname(config)# logging mail high-priority
Specifies which syslog messages should be sent to an e-mail
address. When sent by e-mail, a syslog message appears in the
subject line of the e-mail message. For this reason, we
recommend configuring this option to notify administrators of
syslog messages with high severity levels, such as critical,
alert, and emergency.
Step 2
logging from-address email_address
Example:
hostname(config)# logging from-address
xxx-001@example.com
Specifies the source e-mail address to be used when sending
syslog messages to an e-mail address.