Juniper EX4500 Hardware Manual page 268

EX4500 Switch Hardware Guide
Table 68: Viewing System Log Messages (continued)
Field Function
Severity Severity level of a message is indicated by different
colors.
—Gray—Indicates no severity level is
Unknown
specified.
Debug/Info/Notice
are not errors but are of interest or might warrant
special handling.
—Yellow—Indicates conditions that warrant
Warning
monitoring.
—Blue—Indicates standard error conditions that
Error
generally have less serious consequences than errors
in the emergency, alert, and critical levels.
Critical —Pink—Indicates critical conditions, such as
hard-drive errors.
—Orange—Indicates conditions that require
Alert
immediate correction, such as a corrupted system
database.
Emergency
conditions that cause the switch to stop functioning.
Event ID Displays a code that uniquely identifies the message.
The prefix on each code identifies the message source,
and the rest of the code indicates the specific event or
error.
Event Displays a more detailed explanation of the message.
Description
Time Displays the time at which the message was logged.
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—Green—Indicates conditions that
—Red—Indicates system panic or other
Additional Information
A severity level indicates how seriously the triggering
event affects switch functions. When you configure a
location for logging a facility, you also specify a severity
level for the facility. Only messages from the facility
that are rated at that level or higher are logged to the
specified file.
The event ID begins with a prefix that indicates the
generating software process.
Some processes on a switch do not use codes. This
field might be blank in a message generated from such
a process.
An event can belong to one of the following type
categories:
—Indicates an error or failure condition that
Error
might require corrective action.
—Indicates a condition or occurrence that does
Event
not generally require corrective action.
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