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Junos OS System Logging Facilities and Message Severity Levels

Table 1 lists the Junos system logging facilities that you can specify in configuration statements at the [edit system syslog] hierarchy level.

Table 1: Junos OS System Logging Facilities

Facility

Type of Event or Error

any

All (messages from all facilities)

authorization

Authentication and authorization attempts

change-log

Changes to the Junos OS configuration

conflict-log

Specified configuration is invalid on the router type

daemon

Actions performed or errors encountered by system processes

dfc

Events related to dynamic flow capture

firewall

Packet filtering actions performed by a firewall filter

ftp

Actions performed or errors encountered by the FTP process

interactive-commands

Commands issued at the Junos OS command-line interface (CLI) prompt or by a client application such as a Junos XML protocol or NETCONF XML client

kernel

Actions performed or errors encountered by the Junos OS kernel

pfe

Actions performed or errors encountered by the Packet Forwarding Engine

user

Actions performed or errors encountered by user-space processes

Table 2 lists the severity levels that you can specify in configuration statements at the [edit system syslog] hierarchy level. The levels from emergency through info are in order from highest severity (greatest effect on functioning) to lowest.

Unlike the other severity levels, the none level disables logging of a facility instead of indicating how seriously a triggering event affects routing functions. For more information, see Disabling the System Logging of a Facility.

Table 2: System Log Message Severity Levels

Severity Level

Description

any

Includes all severity levels

none

Disables logging of the associated facility to a destination

emergency

System panic or other condition that causes the router to stop functioning

alert

Conditions that require immediate correction, such as a corrupted system database

critical

Critical conditions, such as hard errors

error

Error conditions that generally have less serious consequences than errors at the emergency, alert, and critical levels

warning

Conditions that warrant monitoring

notice

Conditions that are not errors but might warrant special handling

info

Events or nonerror conditions of interest

Published: 2013-01-16