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1  Information Center 
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: 
z  Log information 
z  Trap information 
z  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  Severity value  Description 
emergencies  1  The system is unavailable. 
alerts  2  Information that demands prompt reaction 
critical 3  Critical information 
errors 4  Error information 
warnings 5  Warnings 
notifications  6  Normal information that needs to be noticed 
informational  7  Informational information to be recorded 
debugging  8  Information generated during debugging 
 
Information filtering by severity works this way: information with the severity value greater than the 
configured threshold is not output during the filtering. 
z  If the threshold is set to 1, only information with the severity being emergencies will be output; 
z  If the threshold is set to 8, information of all severities will be output.