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Information Center

Overview
Introduction to
Information Center
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NFORMATION
Acting as the system information hub, information center classifies and manages
system information. Together with the debugging function (the debugging
command), information center offers a powerful support for network
administrators and developers in monitoring network performance and
diagnosing network problems.
The information center of the system has the following features:
Classification of system information
The system is available with three types of information:
Log information
■
Trap information
■
Debugging information
■
Eight levels of system information
The information is classified into eight levels by severity and can be filtered by
level. More emergent information has a smaller severity level.
Table 338 Severity description
Severity
emergencies
alerts
critical
errors
warnings
notifications
informational
debugging
Information filtering by severity works this way: information with the severity value
greater than the configured threshold is not output during the filtering.
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ENTER
Severity value
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
Description
The system is unavailable.
Information that demands
prompt reaction
Critical information
Error information
Warnings
Normal information that
needs to be noticed
Informational information to
be recorded
Information generated during
debugging