Cisco MDS 9000 Family System Messages Reference (OL-15956-01, April 20078)

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Cisco MDS 9000 Family System Messages Reference
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Chapter 1 Introduction to System Messages for the Cisco MDS 9000 Family
Capturing System Messages and History
System message SEVERITY codes range from 0 to 3 and reflect the severity of the condition. The lower
the number, the more serious the situation. Table 1-4 lists the severity levels.
MNEMONIC is a code that uniquely identifies the system message.
Message-text is a text string that describes the condition. This portion of the message might contain
detailed information about the event, including terminal port numbers, network addresses, or addresses
that correspond to locations in the system memory address space. Because the information in these
variable fields changes from message to message, it is represented here by short strings enclosed in
square brackets (
[]). A decimal number, for example, is represented as [dec].
Table 1-5 lists the representations of variable fields and the type of information in the fields.
The following example system message shows how the variable field might be used:
%AUTHPRIV-3-SYSTEM_MSG: AUTHPRIV [dec] reported a failure in service [chars]
In this example,
Facility code =AUTHPRIV (indicating that it is a authpriv-specific error)
Severity =3 (notification)
Alarm/event code= SYSTEM_MSG
Description of the problem= Authpriv
[dec] reported a failure in service [chars]
[dec] is the module slot number associated with this message.
[chars] is the service name that experienced this failure.
Capturing System Messages and History
The system messages are displayed instantly on the console, by default, or are redirected to an internal
log file, or a syslog server. System message severity levels correspond to the keywords assigned by the
logging global configuration commands. These keywords define where and at what level these messages
appear (refer to the Cisco MDS 9000 Family CLI Configuration Guide and the Cisco MDS 9000 Family
Table 1-4 System Log Message Format description
Level Description
0 – emergency System unusable
1 – alert Immediate action needed
2 – critical Critical condition
3 – notification Normal but significant condition
Table 1-5 Representation of Variable Fields in System Messages
Representation Type of Information
[dec] Decimal number
[hex] Hexadecimal number
[char] Single character
[chars] Character string