Lucent Technologies PortMaster User Manual

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Configuring Global Settings

3-11

Setting System Logging

You can change the facility, the priority, or both, of log messages.

To change the facility or priority of log messages, use the following command. Be sure to
separate the Facility and Priority keywords with a period (.).

Command> set syslog Logtype Facility.Priority

The facility and priority can be set for each of the five types of logged events listed in
Table 3-2.

Table 3-3 and Table 3-4 show the keywords used to identify facilities and priorities.
Lucent recommends that you use the auth facility or the local0 through local7
facilities to receive syslog messages from PortMaster products, but all the facilities are
provided. See your operating system documentation for information on configuring
syslog on your host.

Table 3-3

Syslog Facility Keywords

Facility

Facility Number

Facility

Facility Number

kern

0

cron

15

user

1

local0

16

mail

2

local1

17

daemon

3

local2

18

auth

4

local3

19

syslog

5

local4

20

lpr

6

local5

21

news

7

local6

22

uucp

8

local7

23

Table 3-4

Syslog Priority Keywords

Priority

Number

Typically Used for

emerg

0

System is unusable

alert

1

Action must be taken immediately

crit

2

Critical messages

err

3

Error messages

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