Event Severities - Cisco ASR 5000 Series Administration Manual

System Logs

Event Severities

The system provides the flexibility to configure the level of information that is displayed when logging is
enabled. The following levels are supported:
• critical: Logs only those events indicating a serious error has occurred that is causing the system tor a
• error: Logs events that indicate an error has occurred that is causing the system or a system component
• warning: Logs events that may indicate a potential problem. This level also logs events with a higher
• unusual: Logs events that are very unusual and may need to be investigated. This level also logs events
• info: Logs informational events and events with a higher severity level.
• trace: Logs events useful for tracing and events with a higher severity level.
• debug: Logs all events regardless of the severity.
Each of the above levels correspond to the "severity" level of the event ID. Therefore, only those event IDs
with a "severity" level equal to the logging level are displayed.
Understanding Event ID Information in Logged Output
This section explains the event information that is displayed when logging is enabled.
The following displays a sample output for an event that was logged.
2011-Dec-11+5:18:41.993 [cli 30005 info] [8/0/609 cli:8000609 _commands_cli.c:1290] [software
internal system] CLI session ended for Security Administrator admin on device /dev/pts/2
The following table describes the elements of contained in the sample output.
Table 13: Event Element Descriptions
Element
2011-Dec-11+5:18:41.993
[cli 30005 info]
[8/0/609 cli:8000609 _commands_cli.c:1290]
system component to cease functioning. This is the highest severity level.
to operate in a degraded state. This level also logs events with a higher severity level.
severity level.
with a higher severity level.
Description
Date/Timestamp indicating when the event was generated
Information about the event including:
• The facility the event belongs to
• The event ID
• The event's severity level
In this example, the event belongs to the CLI facility, has an
ID of 3005, and a severity level of "info".
Information about the specific CLI instance.
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