Discussion

5.2 Limiting the Messages Collected
Problem
You have turned on system logging and are collecting messages from all facilities in
your logging files. You are not interested in the messages from one or two of the
facilities and would like to stop messages from these facilities without configuring
each priority.
Solution
Disable the facilities that you don’t want showing up in your logfile:
[edit system syslog file messages]
aviva@router1# set any notice
aviva@router1# set interactive none
Discussion
When you want to capture logging messages from all sources on the router, you can
configure this easily with a single command that specifies the facility as any. When
you want to capture all facilities but one or two, the quickest way is to disable the
facilities that you are not interested in. In this case, you are not interested in collecting
any of the commands that users type at the CLI, but you do want any other commands.
These two commands are a shortcut that saves you from having to type 10
commands, one for each facility you want to enable.
5.3 Including the Facility and Severity in Messages
Problem
Your system logfiles contain lots of messages, and you want to use the severity levels
to distinguish the important ones from the informational ones.
Solution
Include the severity level in each logging message:
[edit system syslog file messages]
aviva@router1# set explicit-priority
Discussion
When you configure each system logfile and include the explicitly-priority statement,
all system log messages contain the priority, which is a combination of the
facility and severity level. The following example highlights the priority for messages
in the logfile.
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