Cisco Nexus 7000 Series

A Commands
action syslog
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Cisco Nexus 7000 Series NX-OS System Management Command Reference
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action syslog
To configure a syslog message to generate when an Embedded Event Manager (EEM) applet is triggered,
use the action syslog command. To disable the syslog message, use the no form of this command.
action label syslog [priority {prio | prio-str}] msg msg-text
no action label syslog [priority {prio | prio-str}] msg msg-text
Syntax Description
Defaults None
Command Modes Embedded event manager
Supported User Roles network-admin
vdc-admin
Command History
label Unique identifier that can be any string value. Actions are sorted and run in an
ascending alphanumeric sequence using the label as the sort key. If the string
contains embedded blanks, enclose it in double quotation marks.
priority (Optional) Specifies the priority level of the syslog messages. If this keyword is
not selected, all syslog messages are set at the informational priority level. If this
keyword is selected, the priority level argument must be defined.
prio Priority level:
• emergencies—Specifies the system is unusable.
• alerts—Specifies immediate action is needed.
• critical—Specifies critical conditions.
• errors—Specifies error conditions.
• warnings— Specifies warning conditions.
• notifications—Specifies normal but significant conditions.
• informational—Specifies informational messages. This is the default.
• debugging—Specifies debugging messages.
prio-str A $-prefixed parameter that you previously set to a priority level.
msg msg-text Specifies the message to be logged. The msg-text can contain character text, an
environment variable, or a combination of the two. If the string contains
embedded blanks, enclose it in double quotation marks.
Release Modification
4.0(1) This command was introduced.