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D-Link UnifiedAccessPointAdministrator’sGuide
November2011 Page33
UnifiedAccessPointAdministrator’sGuide
ToconfigurepersistentloggingontheEventspage,setthepersistence,severity,anddepthoptionsas
describedinTable7,andthenclickApply.
Figure4:PersistentLoggingOptions
Caution!Enablingpersistentloggingcanwearouttheflash(non‐volatile)memoryanddegrade
networkperformance.Youshouldonlyenablepersistentloggingtodebugaproblem.Makesureyou
disablepersistentloggingafteryoufinishdebuggingtheproblem.
Table7:LoggingOptions
Field Description
Persistence ChooseEnabledtosavesystemlogstonon‐volatilememorysothatthelogsarenoterased
whentheAPreboots.ChooseDisabledtosavesystemlogstovolatilememory.Logsin
volatilememoryaredeletedwhenthesystemreboots.
Severity Specifytheseveritylevelofthelogmessagesto
writetonon‐volatilememory.Forexample,
ifyouspecify2,critical,alert,andemergencylogsarewrittentonon‐volatilememory.Error
messageswithaseveritylevelof3–7arewrittentovolatilememory.
•0—emergency
•1—alert
•2—critical
•3—error
•4—warning
•5—
notice
•6—info
•7—debug
Depth Youcanstoreupto128messagesinnon‐volatilememory.Oncethenumberyouconfigure
inthisfieldisreached,theoldestlogeventisoverwrittenbythenewlogevent.
Note:Toapplyyourchanges,clickApply.ChangingsomesettingsmightcausetheAPtostopand
restartsystemprocesses.Ifthishappens,wirelessclientswilltemporarilyloseconnectivity.We
recommendthatyouchangeAPsettingswhenWLANtrafficislow.