Re: loggin facility doubt

man,

this is a golden explanation.

it goes directly to my notes!

I've now understood!

Thanks Lindsay!

On Thu, Oct 4, 2012 at 4:33 AM, Lindsay Hill <lindsay.k.hill_at_gmail.com>wrote:

> "facility" is separate to severity. They mean different things. Don't
> confuse the "local0-7" with the severity levels, which also happen to be
> 0-7.
>
> Facility is kind of like having a tag on the logs, so that the syslog
> server can process them differently - e.g. maybe store them in a different
> file.
>
> Severity is the criticality of the message. You can have different
> severity logs treated differently, depending on where they are going to.
> E.g. you might send debug logs to your local buffer, critical messages to
> the console, notifications to the terminal, and informational to your
> syslog server. Each destination would be different, so your config would
> look something like:
> logging buffered debugging
> logging console critical
> logging monitor notification
> logging trap informational
>
> For the specific scenarios you're asking about - log all events up to
> error - then the command you enter will depend on where you're being asked
> to send the logs to. It will be "logging {buffered|console|monitor|trap}
> error"
>
>
> On 4/10/2012, at 5:16 PM, ccie99999 <ccie99999_at_gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Hi guys,
> >
> > I have this doubt if someone can clarify..
> >
> > I usually don't remember the severity levels so I always do a logging
> > monitor ? to make sure to see the correct match between numbers and
> names:
> >
> > R1(config)#logging monitor ?
> > <0-7> Logging severity level
> > alerts Immediate action needed (severity=1)
> > critical Critical conditions (severity=2)
> > debugging Debugging messages (severity=7)
> > discriminator Establish MD-Console association
> > emergencies System is unusable (severity=0)
> > errors Error conditions (severity=3)
> > filtered Enable filtered logging
> > informational Informational messages (severity=6)
> > notifications Normal but significant conditions (severity=5)
> > warnings Warning conditions (severity=4)
> > xml Enable logging in XML
> >
> > ok, now If I am asked to log all events up to errors, am I correct If I
> do
> > a 'logging facility local 3' ?
> >
> > if I'm asked to log all events up to notifications am I correct if I do a
> > 'logging facility local 5' ?
> >
> > checking the master index I see this:
> >
> > logging facility facility-type Argument
> >
> > local0-7
> >
> > Reserved for locally defined messages
> > thanks for your help.
> >
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