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In this article we will explore how to get the logs from a DellEMC PowerStore array to a Syslog server. For this purpose we will use the PowerStore’s REST API, which is a great piece of engineering and a joy to work with as a developer. If you want to learn more about the PowerStore REST API I strongly recommend you quickly skim through the 2 articles I have written about the REST API. Part 1 - http://anzpiper.blogspot.com/2020/08/intro-to-dellemc-powerstore-rest-api.html Part 2 - http://anzpiper.blogspot.com/2020/08/powerstore-rest-api-best-practices.html In particular the second article demonstrates the capabilities of the REST API query language. This is a great feature I will use heavily in the last section so I strongly recommend you read that one at least As a side note, Syslog was developed in 1980. So this year it has turn 40 years old! That is a long time by any measure ... many of my colleagues were not even born in 1980. But in the technology scale it looks even scarier. 198

In a previous article we introduced the concept of "cloud data co-location" and we presented a demo video that automated the provisioning of a Virtual Machine in vSphere and some storage from both Unity and PowerFlex. At the time we mentioned that the prototype works with public cloud providers but we showed vSphere instead as we didn't have an array plugged in to the public cloud via direct connect service available. Recently, we had to work that required that kind of setup so we took the opportunity to record a video. It is very cool and lasts less than 3 minutes, so make sure you don't miss it!