3Com Switch 4800G 24-Port - Information; Information Center Overview

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INFORMATION CENTER
CONFIGURATION
When configuring information center, go to these sections for information you are
interested in:
■ “Information Center Overview” on page 1005
■ “Configuring Information Center” on page 1009
■ “Displaying and Maintaining Information Center” on page 1015
■ “Information Center Configuration Examples” on page 1015
Information Center
Overview
Introduction to
Information Center
Acting as the system information hub, information center classifies and manages
system information. Together with the debugging functionality, information center
offers a powerful support for network administrators and developers in
monitoring network performance and diagnosing network problems.
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By default, the information center is enabled. An enabled information center
affects the system performance in some degree due to information classification
and output. Such impact becomes more obvious in the event that there is
enormous information waiting for processing.
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 76 Severity description
Severity Severity value Description
emergencies 0 The system is unavailable.
alerts 1 Information that demands prompt reaction
critical 2 Critical information
errors 3 Error information