Information Center; Information Center Overview - 3Com 4500 Configuration Manual

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Information Center

When configuring information center, go to these sections for information you are interested in:

Information Center Overview

Information Center Configuration
Displaying and Maintaining Information Center
Information Center Configuration Examples
Information Center Overview
Introduction to Information Center
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 1-1 Severity description
Severity
emergencies
alerts
critical
errors
warnings
notifications
informational
debugging
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
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