3Com Switch 8800 Family Configuration Guide

Information Center Function 815
The system assigns a channel in each output direction by default. See the table
below.
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The settings in the 7 directions are independent from each other. The settings will
take effect only after enabling the information center.
The information center of the switch has the following features:
■ Support to output log in 7 directions, i.e., Console, monitor to Telnet terminal,
logbuffer, loghost, trapbuffer, and SNMP log file.
■ The log is divided into 8 levels according to the significance and it can be
filtered based on the levels.
■ The information can be classified in terms of the source modules and the
information can be filtered in accordance with the modules.
■ The output language can be selected between Chinese and English.
1 Sending the configuration information to the loghost
Tab le 764 Numbers and names of the channels for log output
Output direction Channel number Default channel name
Console 0 console
Monitor 1 monitor
Information center loghost 2 loghost
Trap buffer 3 trapbuf
Logging buffer 4 logbuf
snmp 5 snmpagent
Log file 6 logfile
Tab le 765 Send the configuration information to the loghost
Device Configuration Default value
Configuration
description
Switch
Enable information center
By default, information
center is enabled
Other configurations are
valid only if the
information center is
enabled
Set the information output
direction to the loghost
-
The configuration about
the loghost on the switch
and that on loghost must
be the same; otherwise the
information cannot be
sent to the loghost
correctly
Set information source -
You can define which
modules and information
to be sent out and the
time-stamp format of
information, and so on.
You must turn on the
switch of the
corresponding module
before defining output
debugging information