About Event Log Levels; Event Log Format - Cisco TelePresence Administrator's Manual

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About Event Log levels

All events have an associated level in the range 1-4, with Level 1 Events considered the most important. The
table below gives an overview of the levels assigned to different events.
Level Assigned events
1 High-level events such as registration requests and call attempts. Easily human readable. For example:
call attempt/connected/disconnected
n
registration attempt/accepted/rejected
n
2 All Level 1 events, plus:
logs of protocol messages sent and received (SIP, H.323, LDAP and so on) excluding noisy messages
n
such as H.460.18 keepalives and H.245 video fast-updates
3 All Level 1 and Level 2 events, plus:
protocol keepalives
n
call-related SIP signaling messages
n
4 The most verbose level: all Level 1, Level 2 and Level 3 events, plus:
network level SIP messages
n
See the Events and levels
which they are logged.

Event Log format

The Event Log is displayed in an extension of the UNIX syslog format:
date time process_name: message_details
where:
Field Description
date The local date on which the message was logged.
time The local time at which the message was logged.
process_name The name of the program generating the log message. This could include:
tvcs for all messages originating from VCS processes
n
web for all web login and configuration events
n
licensemanager for messages originating from the call license manager
n
provisioning for provisioning server events
n
b2bua for B2BUA events
n
presencerelay for B2BUA Presence Relay application events
n
portforwarding for internal communications between the VCS Control and the VCS
n
Expressway
ssh for ssh tunnels between the VCS Control and the VCS Expressway
n
but will differ for messages from other applications running on the VCS.
message_details The body of the message (see the
Cisco VCS Administrator Guide (X8.1.1)
section for a complete list of all events that are logged by the VCS, and the level at
Message details field section for further information).
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