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What is the highest syslog priority?

What is the highest syslog priority?

Each Syslog message includes a priority value at the beginning of the text. The priority value ranges from 0 to 191 and is not space or leading zero padded.

Which syslog priority has a severity of action must be taken immediately?

Alert
Severity level

Value Severity Description
1 Alert Action must be taken immediately
2 Critical Critical conditions
3 Error Error conditions
4 Warning Warning conditions

What is syslog and its 7 level?

Syslog, the event logging standard used in conjunction with Syslog servers, uses a message format that includes timestamp, facility, and severity level. The Syslog Severity level ranges between 0 to 7. Each number points to the relevance of the action reported.

What are the facilities local0 to local7 in syslog?

General info. The facilities local0 to local7 are “custom” unused facilities that syslog provides for the user. If a developer create an application and wants to make it log to syslog, or if you want to redirect the output of anything to syslog (for example, Apache logs), you can choose to send it to any of the local# facilities.

What does local6 mean in syslog Bluesocket?

You can see that local7 messages are being logged to /var/log/syslog_info and local 6 messages sent to /var/log/syslog_bluesocket. 08-26-2011 06:51 PM

What does local6 mean in logging facility local6?

I think 6 in local6 refers to the severity level of Syslog messages. If you set local6, then severity level 6 (information) and more severe (0-6) will be sent as log. 05-16-2005 03:42 AM 05-16-2005 03:42 AM Thanks for your response.But this is not the answer. Read my question.It doesn’t deal with severity. I want to know what does local6 mean ?

What is the priority of a syslog message?

Syslog Facilities. Each Syslog message includes a priority value at the beginning of the text. The priority value ranges from 0 to 191 and is made up of a Facility value and a Level value. The priority is enclosed in “<>” delimiters. The priority is a value from 0 to 191 and is not space or leading zero padded.