How to intentionally cause a log entry?

Hi I have a Dell N4xxx and I just set up a syslog server. It is in production so let's not do anything too wild.

I set it up in our syslog server however I have no way of confirming it works. I logged into the device and there legitimately were no logs for 3 weeks. Even on debugging level. Furthermore logging seems to act differently on different firmware versions as I have been able to cause logs with logging in and out and on some devices with doing copy run start.

What would be a good way of causing a log entry without shutting anything important down?