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6. Select the Admin Status Enable or Disable radio button.
A log that is disabled does not log messages.
7. Use Behavior to specify the behavior of the log when it is full.
It can either wrap around or stop when the log space is filled.
8. Select the severity option in the Severity Filter list.
A log records messages equal to or above a configured severity threshold. The severity
levels are as follows:
• Emergency (0).
The system is unusable.
• Alert (1)
. Action must be taken immediately
.
• Critical (2). Critical conditions.
• Error (3). Error conditions.
• W
arning (4). W
arning conditions.
• Notice (5). Normal but significant conditions.
• Informational (6). Informational messages.
• Debug (7). Debug-level messages.
9. Click the Apply button.
Your settings are saved.
Message Log Format
This topic applies to the format of all logged messages that are displayed for the message
log, persistent log, or console log.
Messages logged to a collector or relay through syslog use an identical format:
• <15>Aug 24 05:34:05 0.0.0.0-1 MSTP[2110]: mspt_api.c(318) 237%% Interface 12
transitioned to root state on message age timer expiry
.
This example indicates a message with severity 7 (15 mod 8) (debug) on a switch and
generated by component MSTP running in thread ID 2110 on Aug 24 05:34:05 by line 318
of file mstp_api.c. This is the 237th message logged with system IP 0.0.0.0 and task-ID 1.