Log Levels (Message Categories) - Red Hat CERTIFICATE SYSTEM 7.1 - ADMINISTRATOR Administrator's Manual

Logs
Table 8-1
Service
OCSP
Others
Registration Authority
Request Queue
User and Group

Log Levels (Message Categories)

For identification and filtering purposes, events logged by all CS-supported services are
classified into various categories. These are listed in Table 8-2. Each category represents
messages that are of the same or a similar nature or that belong to a specific functional area.
In the CS configuration, each message category corresponds to a specific log level. Log
levels are represented by numbers (digits) 1 to 6, each digit indicating the level of logging
to be performed by the server—that is, how detailed the logging should be.
• A higher priority level (a larger digit) means less detail because only events of high
priority are logged.
• A lower priority level (a smaller digit) means greater detail because more kinds of
events are recorded in the log file.
Table 8-2
Log level
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Services Logged (Continued)
Description
Specifies logged events related to OCSP.
Specifies logged events related to other activities of this server,
such as command-line utilities and other processes.
Specifies logged events related to the Registration Manager.
Specifies logged events related to the request queue activity of
this server.
Specifies logged events related to users and groups managed by
this server.
Classification of Log Entries or Messages
Message category
0 Debugging
1 Informational
(default selection for
audit log)
2 Warning
Description
These messages contain debugging information.
Generally, you would not want to set a log to the
debugging level since it would yield far too much
information for normal use.
These messages provide general information about the
CS
state of . For example, status messages such as
"Certificate System initialization complete" and "Request
for operation succeeded" fall into this category.
These messages are warnings only and do not indicate any
failure in the normal operation of the server.