[MX] Understanding the effect of "eventd" on syslog activity

The eventd process is essential for any syslog activity to happen. If this process is not running due to a software defect, or is disabled via configuration such as the following, syslog activity will not happen:

system {
    processes {
        event-processing disable;
    }
}

Check whether the process is running by using the following command:

labroot@rtr> show system processes extensive | match eventd    <<< Shows that the process is not running

To fix this problem and resume syslog activity, perform either of the following:

If the process has been disabled through configuration as shown above, remove the specific configuration and check whether the process is running.

labroot@rtr> edit 
Entering configuration mode

[edit]
labroot@rtr# delete system processes event-processing disable 

[edit]
labroot@rtr# commit 
commit complete

labroot@rtr> show system processes extensive | match eventd 
52118 root      20    0   727M 13292K select  1   0:00   0.00% eventd <<< Shows that eventd is running

If the process has not been disabled through configuration but is still not running due to a software defect, try to restart the process from the shell as a root user:
1. Log in to the shell as a root user from the Command Line Interface (CLI).

labroot@rtr> start shell user root  
Password:
root@rtr:/var/home/labroot #

Execute the following command to start the eventd process.

root@rtr:/var/home/labroot # /usr/sbin/eventd -N -r -s -A & <
[1] 53141

Check from the shell whether the eventd process is running:

root@rtr:/var/home/labroot # ps -aux | grep eventd <<< 
root    53141   0.0  0.0  744152  13260  0  S    15:15       0:00.05 /usr/sbin/eventd -N -r -s -A <<< Shows that the process is running
root    53147   0.0  0.0   16604   2260  0  S+   15:17       0:00.00 grep eventd
root@rtr:/var/home/labroot # exit

labroot@rtr> show system processes extensive | match eventd   <<< CLI shows eventd process is running now.
53141 root      20    0   727M 13260K select  1   0:00   0.00% eventd

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