Defining the Message Severity Level

You can set the severity level of messages according to the level of detail you need. You can also control the destinations of the messages.

Configure

The following command will set the logging to the console, this is the default.

Switch#configure terminal
Switch(config)#logging console
Switch(config)#end

If you want to send logs to a syslog server, you would send them to a host.

Switch#configure terminal
Switch(config)#logging host <ip address>
Switch(config)#end

In order to not be interrupted on the command line with messages, you can set the messages to be synchronized.

Switch#configure terminal
Switch(config)#line console 0
Switch(config-line)#logging synchronous
Switch(config-line)#end

Levels

• Emergencies — level 0 — System unstable
• Alerts — level 1 — Immediate action needed
• Critical — level 2 — Critical conditions
• Errors — level 3 — Error conditions
• Warnings — level 4 — Warning conditions
• Notifications — level 5 — Normal but significant condition
• Informational — level 6 — Informational messages only
• Debugging — level 7 — Debugging messages

By default, the console receives debugging messages (level 7) and numerically lower levels. For example, if you set the logging level to 4, you will recieve all warnings, errors, critical, alerts, and emergencies.