Chapter 3 Alarm Service

Viewing Alarm Messages Sent to a Syslog Server

To view alarm messages that were sent to a third-party Syslog server, refer to the documentation for that system.

Table 3-2describes the fields found in Syslog messages.

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Table 3-2

Syslog Message Format

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Field

 

Example

Description

 

 

 

 

 

 

<pri>

 

<128>

This field is added so that syslog can read the

 

 

 

 

severity level. Syslogd looks for this pri value

 

 

 

 

which is set to LOCAL0SEVERITY by default.

 

 

 

 

 

 

n:

 

100:

This field mimics the Solaris syslogd, which

 

 

 

 

prefixes the syslog message with an internal

 

 

 

 

counter szi. It has no significance to the SAC. The

 

 

 

 

number is parsed out by the SAC.

 

 

 

 

 

 

MMM DD

 

Aug 09

Abbreviated month day as known at the source.

 

 

 

 

 

hh:mm:ss.mmm

19:20:10.209

Time at source device. The UTC time is used to

 

 

 

 

avoid any time zone name discrepancy.

 

 

 

 

 

 

TimeZone

 

UTC

Abbreviated time zone defined in the device, such

 

 

 

 

as GMT. This field is always set to UTC to avoid

 

 

 

 

any time zone name discrepancy.

 

 

 

 

 

 

% FACILITY

 

CDP (Cisco Discovery

A code consisting of two or more uppercase letters

 

Allowed characters

Protocol), ALIGN

that indicate the facility to which the message

 

A-Z 0-9 _

 

(Memory optimization

refers. A facility can be a hardware device, a

 

 

 

in RISC)

protocol, or a module of the system software. Note

 

 

 

 

that this is not the same as the UNIX Syslog server

 

 

 

 

logging facility.

 

 

 

 

 

[SUBFACILITY-]

CLAW (Common Link

Subfacility Code. This field is optional.

 

A-Z 0-9 _

 

Access for

 

 

 

 

Workstations)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

SEVERITY

 

0

A single-digit code from 0 to 7 that reflects the

 

 

 

 

severity of the condition. The lower the number,

 

 

 

 

the more serious the situation. Severity also maps

 

 

 

 

to logging level.

 

 

 

 

 

 

MNEMONIC

 

BADIPALIGN: Invalid

The mnemonic code uniquely identifies the error

 

 

 

alignment in packet for

message. This code is used by CiscoWorks to

 

 

 

IP.

associate the syslog message with the message

 

 

 

 

information in the message catalog.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Message-text

 

Module Failure

A text string describing the condition.

 

 

 

Cause=Unknown

 

 

 

 

 

 

Sample Format:

<LOCAL7SEVERITY>51:Oct 18 03:28:29.327 PDT: %MIVR-GENERIC-1-ModuleStop: Module has stopped; Module Name=HTTP SubSystem; Module Failure Cause=Unknown

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