Extending System Message Control - Avaya 8800 Troubleshooting Manual

Log configuration using the CLI
disable
enable
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max-msg-num <number>

Extending system message control

Use the force message control option to extend the message control feature functionality to
the software and hardware log messages.
To enable the message control feature, you must specify an action, control interval, and
maximum message number. After enabling the feature, the log messages, which get repeated
and cross the maximum message number in the control interval, trigger the force message
feature. You can either suppress the message or send a trap notification, or both.
Procedure steps
1. Configure the force message control option by using the following command:
2. Ensure the configuration is correct:
Variable definitions
Use the information in the following table to complete the config sys set force-msg
command.
add <str>
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Variable
config sys set msg-control force-msg add <str>
config sys set msg-control force-msg info
Variable
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Value
Disables system message control.
Activates system message control. Enabling this
command suppresses duplicate error messages.
Displays the configuration of system message
control.
Configures the number of occurrences of a message
after which the control action happens. To set the
maximum number of occurrences, enter a value
from 2 to 500. The default value is 5.
Value
Adds a forced message control pattern, where
<str> is a string of four characters. You can add a
four-byte pattern into the force-msg table. The
software and the hardware log messages that use
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