2-24 Dell PowerVault 720N, 740N, and 760N System Administrator and Command Reference Guide
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The level parameter describes the severity of the message. Table 2-15 describes
the level parameter keywords arranged in order from highest to lowest severity.
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The action parameter specifies where messages should be sent. Messages for the
specified level or higher are sent to the message destination. Table 2-16 describes the
possible actions and gives examples of each action.
kern messages from the filer kernel
*messages from all facilities

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emerg panic condition that causes a disruption of normal service
alert condition that you should correct immediately, such as a failed
disk
crit critical conditions, such as disk errors
err errors, such as those caused by a bad configuration file
warning conditions that might become errors if not corrected
notice conditions that are not errors, but might require special
handling
info information, such as the hourly uptime message
debug used for diagnostic purposes (suppressed by default)
*specifies all levels

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Send messages to a file specified by
a path.
/etc/messages
Send messages to a host name pre-
ceded by an @ sign.
@adminhost

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