Event Severity Level; Table 10-2: Vpn Concentrator Event Severity Levels - Cisco VPN 3000 User Manual

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Events

Event severity level

Severity level indicates how serious or significant the event is; i.e., how likely it is to cause unstable
operation of the VPN concentrator, whether it represents a high-level or low-level operation, or whether
it returns little or great detail. Level 1 is most significant. Table 10-2 describes the severity levels.

Table 10-2: VPN Concentrator event severity levels

Level
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
12
13
Within a severity level category, higher-numbered events provide more details than lower-numbered
events, without necessarily duplicating the lower-level details. For example, within the Information
category, Level 6 provides greater detail than Level 4 but doesn't necessarily include the same
information as Level 4.
Logging higher-numbered severity levels degrades performance, since more system resources are used
to log and handle these events.
Note: The Debug (7–9) and Packet Decode (10–13) severity levels are intended for use by Cisco engineering
and support personnel. We recommend that you avoid logging these events unless Cisco requests it.
The VPN Concentrator, by default, displays all events of severity level 1 through 3 on the console. It
writes all events of severity level 1 through 5 to the event log. You can change these defaults on the
Configuration | System | Events | General
on the Configuration | System | Events | Classes screens.
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Category Description
Fault A crash or non-recoverable error.
Warning A pending crash or severe problem that requires user
intervention.
Warning A potentially serious problem that may require user action.
Information An information-only event with few details.
Information An information-only event with moderate detail.
Information An information-only event with greatest detail.
Debug Least amount of debugging detail.
Debug Moderate amount of debugging detail.
Debug Greatest amount of debugging detail.
Packet Decode High-level packet header decoding
Packet Decode Low-level packet header decoding
Packet Decode Hex dump of header
Packet Decode Hex dump of packet
screen, and you can configure specific events for special handling
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