Avaya 8800 Troubleshooting Manual page 52

Log and trap fundamentals
FILTER
HW
IGMP
The following table describes the system message severity levels.
Table 5: SMP severity levels
Severity level
INFO
ERROR
WARNING
FATAL
Based on the severity code in each message, the switch dispatches each message to any or
all of the following destinations:
• workstation display
• local log file
• designated printer
• one or more remote hosts
Internally, the Avaya Ethernet Routing Switch 8800/8600 has four severity levels for log
messages: Info, Warning, Error, Fatal. The system log supports eight different severity levels:
• Debug
• Info
• Notice
• Warning
• Critical
• Error
• Alert
• Emergency
The following table shows the default mapping of internal severity levels to syslog severity
levels.
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SMP categories
MLT RADIUS
NONE RIP
OSPF RMON
Information only. No action is required.
A nonfatal condition occurred. You may be required to take
appropriate action. For example, an error message is generated
when the system is unable to lock onto the semaphore required
to initialize the IP addresses used for transferring the SMP log
file to a remote host.
A nonfatal condition occurred. No immediate action is needed.
A fatal condition occurred. The system cannot recover without
restarting. For example, a fatal message is generated when the
configuration database is corrupted.
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July 2013