Messages Reference Guide

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Chapter 1
About the Guide
This document covers syslog messages included in this Dell W-Instant release.
Document Organization
This document contains the complete listings of all syslog messages generated by Dell W-Instant. Each
chapter lists the syslogs for a single category as follows:
 Security
 System
 User
 Wireless
Each chapter contains the severity level syslog messages in table format (see Table 1 for the complete list of
severity levels). The syslog messages are the actual text displayed by Dell W-Instant when encountering the
syslog, and some further descriptive text, giving more information about the syslog. The entry may also
include recommended action when this syslog is encountered.
Format of Messages
Consider the following message as an example:
Jan 23 16:26:51 sapd[148]: <404003> <WARN> |AP 00:0b:86:cb:85:db@10.34.84.14 sapd| AM
00:0b:86:38:5d:b0: Interfering AP detected with SSID 06B408550367 and BSSID
00:12:0e:44:d4:2c
In this case, the message elements are:
<date and time stamp> = Jan 23 16:26:51
<error location>: = sapd[148]:
(the specific module location where this syslog was generated)
<error number> = <404003> (a unique number within the set of messages generated by Dell W-
Instant)
<severity> = <WARN> (Warning severity level)
|<process>| = |AP 00:0b:86:cb:85:db@10.34.84.14 sapd| (the Access Point Media Access
Control (MAC) device address, along with the IP address)
message text = the remaining part of the message.
The message text portion is frequently constructed from information returned with the syslog. For example,
the message text for the syslog above is constructed as:
AM <BSSID>: Interfering AP detected with SSID <SSID> and BSSID <BSSID>
Where:
<BSSID> = 00:0b:86:38:5d:b0
<SSID> = 06B408550367
<BSSID> = 00:12:0e:44:d4:2c
In this edition, message definition, recommended action and in some cases the cause that generated the syslog
message are included. Syslog messages were prioritized for definition; this edition includes definitions for
approximately 70% of Dell W-Instant syslog messages. For those messages yet to be defined, the phrase “No
description available” appears.