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Check Synology logs (Log Center) to diagnose issues

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Log Center is the centralized log management app for Synology. According to the knowledge base, it can help you diagnose issues by doing the following:

- Search and filter local logs and logs received from other network devices
- Monitor log volume according to time or device
- Send notifications to administrators when specified events occur
- Send and receive logs from other network devices via syslog logging standard
- Specify log archival destination and create rules to automatically trigger log archival

For diagnosis tools, the RT2600ac documentation also mentions:

- Ping: used to test whether a destination IP address exists and can accept requests, and to help diagnose slow or failing connectivity
- Traceroute: used to examine the Internet pathway to a specific destination and understand how traffic is being routed

If you want to diagnose a failure, the knowledge base points to using Log Center for log search/filtering and Ping/Traceroute for network-path checks.
If you need the exact clicks for a specific symptom, the knowledge base excerpt here does not provide a step-by-step failure workflow.

Sources used: [1], [4], [8], [15]

SOURCES
[1] RT2600ac — Document[2] The 3<sup>rd</sup> Party Developer Guide — Document[3] Surveillance Station Web API[4] RT2600ac — Document[5] faillock — command reference[6] systemctl-is-system-running — command reference[7] Advanced Bash-Scripting Guide[8] Log Center | DSM - Synology Knowledge Center[9] Log Center | DSM - Synology Knowledge Center[10] Log Center | DSM - Synology Knowledge Center[11] Log Center - Synology Knowledge Center[12] Synology Knowledge Center[13] Synology Knowledge Center[14] Synology Knowledge Center[15] Log Center | SRM - Synology Knowledge Center
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