Lucent Technologies PortMaster, Configuration 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