HP Brocade 8/12c Brocade Fabric OS Message Reference - Supporting Fabric OS v7 - Page 105

Reading the system messages 1 TABLE 4 System message field description (Continued) Variable name Description Flags Severity Level Switch name Event-specific information For most messages, this field contains a space character (null value) indicating that the message is neither an AUDIT or FFDC message. Messages may contain the following values: • FFDC - Indicates that additional first failure data capture information has also been generated for this event. • FID - The Fabric ID that can range from 0 to 128. FID 128 means the message was generated by the default switch instance. • CHASSIS - The message that was generated by the chassis instance. • SLOT number - Indicates the message was generated from slot # blade main CPU. • SLOT #/1 - Indicates the message was generated from slot # blade Co-CPU. The severity of the error, which can be one of the following: • 1 - CRITICAL • 2 - ERROR • 3 - WARNING • 4 - INFO The defined switch name or the chassis name of the switch depending on the action; for example, high-availability (HA) messages typically show the chassis name, and login failures show the logical switch name. This value is truncated if it exceeds 16 characters in length. Run either the chassisName command to name the chassis or the switchName command to rename the logical switch. A text string explaining the error encountered and providing parameters supplied by the software at runtime. Reading an Audit message Compared to RASLog error messages, messages flagged as AUDIT provide additional user and system-related information of interest for post-event auditing and troubleshooting the problem. The following example shows the format of the Audit event message. AUDIT, , [], , , ////, /, , The following is a sample Audit event message. 0 AUDIT, 2005/12/10-09:54:03, [SEC-1000], WARNING, SECURITY, JohnSmith/root/192.168.132.10/Telnet/CLI, Domain A/JohnsSwitch, , Incorrect password during login attempt. The fields in the error message are described in Table 5. TABLE 5 Audit message field description Variable name Description Sequence Number Audit flag The error message position in the log. Identifies the message as an Audit message. Fabric OS Message Reference 19 53-1002448-01