3Com Switch 8800 Advanced Software V5 Configuration Guide

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INFORMATION CENTER
CONFIGURATION
When configuring information center, go to these sections for information you are
interested in:
■ “Information Center Overview” on page 1117
■ “Configuring Information Center” on page 1123
■ “Displaying and Maintaining Information Center” on page 1129
■ “Information Center Configuration Examples” on page 1129
Information Center
Overview
Introduction to
Information Center
Acting as the system information hub, information center classifies and manages
system information. Together with the debugging functionality, information center
offers a powerful support for network administrators and developers in
monitoring network performance and diagnosing network problems.
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By default, the information center is enabled. An enabled information center
affects the system performance in some degree due to information classification
and output. Such impact becomes more obvious in the event that there is
enormous information waiting for processing.
The information center of the system has the following features:
Classification of system information
The system is available with three types of information:
■ Log information
■ Trap information
■ Debug information
Eight levels of system information
The information is classified into eight levels by severity and can be filtered by
level. More emergent information has a smaller severity level.
Tab le 42 Severity description
Severity Severity value Description
emergencies 0 The system is unavailable.
alerts 1 Information that demands
prompt reaction
critical 2 Critical information