Logging Tab
Administration > General Settings > Setup > Logging
This tab summarizes the following configured logging parameters:
- Log Configurationrefers to local logging.
- Log Facilities Configurationrefers to remote logging.
The logs keep track of alarms, events, or any other issue involved with your appliances. The following table provides more details.
Severity Levels
In order of decreasing severity, the levels are as follows:
| EMERGENCY | System is unusable. |
|---|---|
| ALERT | Includes all alarms the appliance generates:CRITICAL,MAJOR,MINOR, andWARNING. |
| CRITICAL | 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 Support for debugging. |
| DEBUG | Used by Support for debugging. |
| NONE | If you selectNONE, no events are logged. |
- Theboldedpart of the name is what displays in the log files.
- These are related to event logging levels, not alarm severities, even though some naming conventions overlap. Events and alarms have different sources. Alarms, when they clear, list as the ALERT level in the Event Log.
Remote Logging
- You can configure the appliance to forward all events, at and above a specified severity, to a remote syslog server.
- A syslog server is independently configured for the minimum severity level that it will accept. Without reconfiguring, it might not accept as low a severity level as you are forwarding to it.
- Each message/event type (System / Audit / Flow) is assigned to a syslog facility level (local0 to local7).