Logging Tab

Administration > [General] Logging

This tab summarizes the configured logging parameters:

n	Log Configuration refers to local logging.

n	Log Facilities Configuration refers to remote logging.

Minimum Severity Levels

In decreasing order of severity, the levels are as follows:

EMERGENCY	The system is unusable.
ALERT	Includes all alarms the appliance generates: CRITICAL, MAJOR, MINOR, and WARNING
CRITICAL	A critical event
ERROR	An error. This is a non-urgent failure.
WARNING	A warning condition. Indicates an error will occur if action is not taken.
NOTICE	A normal, but significant, condition. No immediate action required.
INFORMATIONAL	Informational. Used by Silver Peak for debugging.
DEBUG	Used by Silver Peak for debugging
NONE	If you select NONE, then no events are logged.

n	The bolded part of the name is what displays in Silver Peak's logs.

n	These are purely related to event logging levels, not alarm severities, even though some naming conventions overlap. Events and alarms have different sources. Alarms, once they clear, list as the ALERT level in the Event Log.

Remote Logging

n	You can configure the appliance to forward all events, at and above a specified severity, to a remote syslog server.

n	A syslog server is independently configured for the minimum severity level that it will accept. Without reconfiguring, it may not accept as low a severity level as you are forwarding to it.

n	Each message/event type (System / Audit / Flow) is assigned to a syslog facility level (local0 to local7).

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