Defining What To Log - D-Link DWC-1000 User Manual

Wireless Controller

9.5.1 Defining What to Log

Tools > Log Settings > Logs Facility
The Logs Facility page allows you to determine the granularity of logs to receive
from the controller. There are three core components of the controller, referred to as
Facilities:

Kernel: This refers to the Linux kernel. Log messages that correspond to this
facility would correspond to traffic through the firewall or network stack.

System: This refers to application and management level features available on this
controller, including SSL VPN and administrator changes for managing the unit.

Wireless: This facility corresponds to the 802.11 driver used for providing AP
functionality to your network.

Local1-UTM: This facility corresponds to IPS (Intrusion Prevention System)
which helps in detecting malicious intrusion attempts from the WAN.
For each facility, the following events (in order of severity) can be logged:
Emergency, Alert, Critical, Error, Warning, Notification, Information, Debugging.
When a particular severity level is selected, all events with severity equal to and
greater than the chosen severity are captured. For example if you have configured
CRITICAL level logging for the Wireless facility, the n 802.11 logs with severities
CRITICAL, ALERT, and EMERGENCY are logged. The severity levels available
for logging are:

EMERGENCY: system is unusable

ALERT: action must be taken immediately

CRITICAL: critical conditions

ERROR: error conditions

WARNING: warning conditions

NOTIFICATION: normal but significant condition

INFORMATION: informational
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DEBUGGING: debug-level messages
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