6.5 Maintaining Oak

The bulk of the maintenance required for Oak is creating and updating the configuration file. As you change other components of your system, such as upgrading router software or deploying new servers, you can expect to see new and different syslog messages. The Oak configuration must be updated to reflect these changes. The risk of a stale configuration is that notifications will become long and less compact, which may make it easy to overlook important warning messages.

It is good practice to update the configuration every few weeks by looking over earlier reports and determining which information can be safely ignored or made more compact.