Understanding Severity Levels

On the View Events page, the severity level of a message is indicated by different colors. The severity level indicates how seriously the triggering event affects routing platform functions.

Table 34 lists the system log severity levels, the corresponding colors and a description of what the severity level indicates.

Table 34: Severity Levels

Color

Severity Level (from Highest to Lowest Severity)

Description

Red

emergency

System panic or other conditions that cause the routing platform to stop functioning.

Orange

alert

Conditions that must be corrected immediately, such as a corrupted system database.

Pink

critical

Critical conditions, such as hard drive errors.

Blue

error

Standard error conditions that generally have less serious consequences than errors in the emergency, alert, and critical levels.

Yellow

warning

Conditions that warrant monitoring.

Green

notice

Conditions that are not error conditions but are of interest or might warrant special handling.

info

Informational messages. This is the default.

debug

Software debugging messages.

Gray

unknown

No severity level is specified.