Chapter 32 Configuring System Message Logging

Configuring System Message Logging

Enabling and Disabling Time Stamps on Log Messages

By default, log messages are not time-stamped.

Beginning in privileged EXEC mode, follow these steps to enable time-stamping of log messages. This procedure is optional.

 

Command

Purpose

Step 1

 

 

configure terminal

Enter global configuration mode.

Step 2

 

 

service timestamps log uptime

Enable log time stamps.

 

or

The first command enables time stamps on log messages,

 

service timestamps log datetime [msec] [localtime]

showing the time since the system was rebooted.

 

[show-timezone]

The second command enables time stamps on log messages.

 

 

Depending on the options selected, the time stamp can

 

 

include the date, time in milliseconds relative to the local

 

 

time-zone, and the time zone name.

Step 3

 

 

end

Return to privileged EXEC mode.

Step 4

 

 

show running-config

Verify your entries.

Step 5

 

 

copy running-config startup-config

(Optional) Save your entries in the configuration file.

 

 

 

To disable time stamps for both debug and log messages, use the no service timestamps global configuration command.

This example shows part of a logging display with the service timestamps log datetime global configuration command enabled:

*Mar 1 18:46:11: %SYS-5-CONFIG_I: Configured from console by vty2 (10.34.195.36)

(Switch-2)

This example shows part of a logging display with the service timestamps log uptime global configuration command enabled:

00:00:46: %LINK-3-UPDOWN: Interface Port-channel1, changed state to up (Switch-2)

Enabling and Disabling Sequence Numbers in Log Messages

Because there is a chance that more than one log message can have the same time stamp, you can display messages with sequence numbers so that you can unambiguously see a single message. By default, sequence numbers in log messages are not displayed.

Beginning in privileged EXEC mode, follow these steps to enable sequence numbers in log messages. This procedure is optional.

 

Command

Purpose

Step 1

 

 

configure terminal

Enter global configuration mode.

Step 2

 

 

service sequence-numbers

Enable sequence numbers.

Step 3

 

 

end

Return to privileged EXEC mode.

 

 

 

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