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Ensure ‘logging to Serial console’ is disabled

Details

Disables the logging to the Serial console

Rationale:

Enabling the logs to be sent to the Serial console may negatively impact the logging to the buffer and remote syslog servers and to a certain extent the buffer and syslog servers may no longer receive logs because the logs generation will follow the Serial console speed.

Solution

Run the following command to disable the logging to console

hostname(config)#no logging console

Default Value:

The logging to console is disabled by default

Supportive Information

The following resource is also helpful.

This security hardening control applies to the following category of controls within NIST 800-53: Configuration Management.This control applies to the following type of system Cisco.

References

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Updated on July 16, 2022
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