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Interpreting Event Messages

The following output shows a sample event message.

Table 1 describes the fields for an event message. If the system logging utility cannot determine the value in a particular field, a hyphen ( - ) appears instead.

Table 1: Fields in Event Messages
Field	Description	Examples
`timestamp`	Time when the message was generated, in one of two representations: `MMM-DD HH:MM:SS.MS+/-HH:MM,` is the month, day, hour, minute, second and millisecond in local time. The hour and minute that follows the plus sign (+) or minus sign (-) is the offset of the local time zone from Coordinated Universal Time (UTC). `YYYY-MM-DDTHH:MM:SS.MSZ` is the year, month, day, hour, minute, second and millisecond in UTC.	Jul 24 17:43:28 is the timestamp expressed as local time in the United States. 2012-07-24T09:17:15.719Z is 9:17 AM UTC on 24 July 2012.
`hostname`	Name of the host that originally generated the message.	router1
`process`	Name of the Junos OS process that generated the message.	mgd
`processID`	UNIX process ID (PID) of the Junos OS process that generated the message.	4153
`TAG`	Junos OS system log message tag, which uniquely identifies the message.	UI_DBASE_LOGOUT_EVENT
`username`	Username of the user initiating the event.	“admin”
`message-text`	English-language description of the event .	set: [system radius-server 1.2.3.4 secret]