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Chapter 5 — Operating the Library Monitoring Your Library
November 2016 User Guide—Spectra T950 Library
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Use Syslog
TheBlueScaleSyslogfeaturesendsallsystemmessagesloggedbythe
librarytoapreviouslyconfiguredSyslogserver.Syslogisastandardfor
forwardinglogmessagesoveranInternetProtocol(IP)computernetwork.
Itprovidesseparationofthesoftwarethatgenerateslogmessagesfromthe
systemthatstoresthemessages.
EachsystemmessagethelibrarysendstotheSyslogservercontainsthe
originalsystemmessagepostedbythelibraryandtheremedyinformation
associatedwiththesystemmessage.
SeeSyslogServerIPAddressonpage114forinformationaboutentering
theIPaddressoftheSyslogserver.EnteringavalidIPaddressenablesthe
Syslogfeature.
Whenenabled,theBlueScaleSyslogfeatureautomaticallysendsallsystem
messagespostedbythelibrarytoasingle,previouslyconfiguredSyslog
server.ThelibrarytransmitsthemessagestotheSyslogserverusingthe
format:
<severity level>BlueScale_<library name>[PP]:(<message number>)
<message
text>
where:
Variable Definition
severitylevel I ndicatestheseveritythelibraryassignedtothemessage.Thisseverity
correspondstothesyslogprioritiesasfollows:
This library system message severity... Corresponds to this Syslog priority...
Informational 6(Informational)
Warning 4(Warning)
Error 3(Error)
FatalError 2(Critical)
libraryname Thenameofthelibrary,ifconfigured.Ifthelibrarynameisnotconfigured,this
valueissetto“UnknownLibrary.”
RefertoLibraryNameonpage111forinformationaboutsettingthelibrary
name.
PP IndicatestheIDnumberoftheprocessthat wasbeing
performedbythe
library’sBlueScalesoftwarewhenthesystemmessagewasposted.ThisID
numberisforinternaluseonly.
messagenumber IndicatestheorderinwhichtheSyslogserverreceivedthemessages.Thecounter
incrementsea chtimeamessageisreceived,beginningatzero.Thecountercanbe
usedtodeterminewhetherallmessagesarearrivingattheSysl ogserver.
messagetext Showstheactualmessagepostedbythelibrary.Eachsystemmessagepostedby
thelibrarygeneratestwoSyslogmessages;oneforthemessagetextandonefor
theremedytext.Thetwomessageshavethesamemessagenumber,whichis
included
atthebeginningofthemessage.