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Catalyst 4500 Series Switch Cisco IOS System Message Guide Release 12.2(31)SGA
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System Message Format
This chapter describes the Cisco IOS system message structure and error message traceback report.
This chapter contains the following sections:
• Message Structure, page 1-1
• Error Message Traceback Reports, page 1-4
Message Structure
The message includes the following information:
• Facility code
• Severity level
• Mnemonic code
• Description field
System error messages are structured as follows:
FACILITY-SEVERITY-MNEMONIC: Message-text
Facility Code
The facility code consists of at least two uppercase letters that indicate the facility to which the message
refers. A facility can be a hardware device, a protocol, or a module of the system software. Table 1-1
lists the system facility codes.
Table 1-1 Facility Codes
Code Facility
ACL Access control list
BUFFERMANAGER Memory buffer management
CHASSIS Chassis
COMMONHWACLMAN Common hardware ACL management
COMMONSTUBMAN ASIC-specific messages
DAIMAN Dynamic ARP inspection management