3Com Switch 8800 Advanced Software V5 Configuration Guide

1118 CHAPTER 88: INFORMATION CENTER CONFIGURATION
Information filtering by severity works this way: information with the severity value
greater than the configured threshold is not output during the filtering.
■ If the threshold is set to 0, only information with the severity being
emergencies will be output;
■ If the threshold is set to 7, information of all severities will be output.
Ten channels and seven output directions of system information
The system supports seven information output directions, including the Console,
console terminal (monitor), logbuffer, loghost, trapbuffer, SNMP and logfile.
The system can support ten channels. The channels 0 through 5, and channel 9
have their default channel names and are associated with seven output directions
by default. Both the names of the routers and the associations between the
channels and output directions can be changed through commands.
errors 3 Error information
warnings 4 Warnings
notifications 5 Normal errors with important
information
informational 6 Informational information to
be recorded
debugging 7 Information generated during
debugging
Tabl e 43 Information channels and output directions
Information channel
number
Default channel name Default output direction
0 console Console (Receives log, trap
and debug information)
1 monitor Monitor terminal (Receives
log, trap and debug
information, facilitating
remote maintenance)
2 loghost Log host (Receives log, trap
and debug information and
information will be stored in
files for future retrieval.)
3 trapbuffer Trap buffer (Receives trap
information, a buffer inside
the router for recording
information.)
4 logbuffer Log buffer (Receives log
information, a buffer inside
the router for recording
information.)
5 snmpagent SNMP NMS (Receives trap
information)
6 Not specified Not specified (Receives log,
trap, and debug information)
Table 42 Severity description
Severity Severity value Description