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In addition, you can send messages to remote SYSLOG servers in the form of SNMP traps and
SYSLOG messages.
You can configure the messages that are written to each log by severity, and a message can go to
more.
Log Management
You can select the events by severity level. Each log message has a severity level marked with
the first letter of the severity level separated by dashes (-) on each side (except for Emergency
that is indicated by the letter F). For example, the log message “%INIT-I-InitCompleted: … “ has a
severity level of I, meaning Informational.
The event severity levels are listed from the highest severity to the lowest severity:
1.
EmergencySystem is not usable.
2.
AlertAction is needed.
3.
Critical—System is in a critical condition.
4.
ErrorSystem is in error condition.
5.
Warning—System warning has occurred.
6.
NoticeSystem is functioning properly, but a system notice has occurred.
7.
InformationalDevice information.
8.
Debug—Detailed information about an event.
You can select different severity levels for RAM and Flash logs. These logs are displayed in the
RAM Log page and Flash Memory Log page, respectively.
Selecting a severity level to be stored in a log causes all of the higher severity events to be
automatically stored in the log. Lower severity events are not stored in the log.