Syslog Severity Level Classifications

Individual log entries are classified by importance. For example, all successful operations are classified as INFO level log entries. Events that have security implications such as failed authorization, are logged with WARN level.

There are five log level classifications:

• FATAL—Severe errors, usually involving a crash.

• ERROR—Runtime errors, intermittent network issues, recoverable errors such as dropping network packets, etc.

• WARN—Non-fatal, unexpected behavior, and proactive monitoring notifications. Security events, such as failed authorizations, are also logged at this level.

• INFO—Generally interesting events, such as virtual machine moves and configuration changes. Also includes all virtual infrastructure events, including successful and failed authentications, authorizations, and changes to virtual infrastructure configurations that were locked down by CloudControl.

• DEBUG—Support messages about the internal operations of CloudControl that are intended for use by HyTrust Support.

You can view syslog events using the built-in log viewer (General > Log Viewer).