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Setting the Logging Level

The Logging Level provides a way to use the Event Priority setting of the event to filter for log generation. Events with equal or greater priority are logged. Events with a lower priority are not logged. This enables you to filter out lower-level priorities to prevent them from being logged. This Logging Level filtering is done at the beginning of logging the event, before any other filtering settings are applied. The Logging Level filtering affects which logs are actually stored in the Log database (and storage), unlike the Filter icon that only affects the display of those logs.

While the Event Priority for each event has a factory default value, the Edit dialogs allow the Event Priority to be customized as needed on the Category level, Group level, or individual Event level. By changing the Event Priority for selected events, administrators can include events that are otherwise filtered out because of the Logging Level setting. For example, a factory default Debug event can be set to have an Event Priority of Warning so that it is included in the logs when Logging Level is set to Warning.

On the Log > Settings page, you can set the baseline logging level to be displayed on the Monitor > Logs > System Logs page. The following logging levels are available for selection, from highest to lowest:

• Emergency
• Alert
• Critical
• Error
• Warning
• Notice
• Inform
• Debug

The default level is Inform.

To set the logging level

1. Navigate to the Log > Settings page.
2. From the Logging Level drop-down menu, select the logging level you want.

   All events with Event Priority equal to or higher than the selected entry are logged. For example, if you select Error as the Logging Level, all messages with Event Priority of Error, Critical, Alert, and Emergency are logged.

   To display all events, select Debug as the logging level.