APC AP7900 manual Severe is mapped to Critical Informational is mapped to Info

Switched Rack PDU

USER’S GUIDE

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Setting	Definition
Syslog Server Settings
Server IP/	Uses specific IP addresses or domain names to identify which of up to
Domain Name	four servers will receive Syslog messages sent by the Rack PDU.
	NOTE: To use the Syslog feature, at least Server IP/Domain Name
	must be defined for at least one server.
Port	Identifies the user datagram protocol (UDP) port that the Rack PDU
	will use to send Syslog messages. The default is 514, the number of
	the UDP port assigned to Syslog.
Local Priority (Severity Mapping)
Map to	Maps each of the severity levels (Local Priority settings) that can be
Syslog’s	assigned to System and Rack PDU events to the available Syslog
Priorities	priorities. The following definitions are from RFC3164:
	• Emergency: The system is unusable
	• Alert: Action must be taken immediately
	• Critical: Critical conditions
	• Error: Error conditions
	• Warning: Warning conditions
	• Notice: Normal but significant conditions
	• Informational: Informational messages
	• Debug: Debug-level messages

Following are the default settings for the four Local Priority settings:

•Severe is mapped to Critical.

•Warning is mapped to Warning.

•Informational is mapped to Info.

•None (for events that have no severity level assigned) is mapped to Info.

NOTE: To disable sending Syslog messages for Severe, Warning, or Informational events, see Event Actions (Web Interface Only).

Syslog test (Web interface). This option allows you to send a test message to the Syslog servers configured in the Syslog Server section.

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