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This section in the lab wants me to configure logging to a specific IP address.  It states that it wants you to log to this server when your Traffic Engineered tunnel is established or torn down.

I did the following on the appropriate routers:

logging 131.1.26.100

interface tunnel XXX - where XXX is the TE tunnel

logging event link-status

The 'logging event' command must be a default since it doesn't show up in the config.  I did a debug ip packet and noted that data was being sent to the syslog server everytime I did either s 'shut' or 'no shut' on the tunnel interface.

Would I not get points for this?

The solutions guide has the following - in addition to the 'logging 131.1.26.100' command:

mpls traffic-eng logging lsp setups

mpls traffic-eng logging lsp teardowns

Is there something in the interpretation of the question that should have led me to use these commands instead of what I did? What really gets me is that I cannot even find the configuration guide information for these commands.  Its this kind of stuff that will kill me on the lab.

Does anyone have any advice and/or suggestions?

Hi,

I'd say you wouldn't get full points no. This is because if the question is asking you to log specific to TE tunnels then the 2 commands in the solution would be the point winners, not the logging x.x.x.x command. This is because it would show that you have understanding of the technology they are asking for in the question and not to see if you know the logging commands.

Also, the command you used, "logging event link-status" would send logs to the syslog server for every interface that flaps, and that would not be the optimum output as then if this is what the tester asked for, or say a customer, then they would have to filter through the output to only get the TE specific data they originally asked for.

Just think of it this way, the questions are like customer requests.

I hope I helped you out.

Cheers,

mpls-te