Event control preprocesses the events generated by applications before the event is passed into the main event stream. Event control assigns a severity to application events and can either forward the event to the main event source or suppress the event. Suppressed events are counted in event control, but these events do not generate log entries because they never reach the log manager.
Simple event throttling is another method of event control and is configured similarly to the generation and suppression options. See Simple logger event throttling.
Events are assigned a default severity level in the system, but the application event severities can be changed by the user.
Application events contain an event number and description that describe why the event is generated. The event number is unique within an application, but the number can be duplicated in other applications.
The following example, generated by querying event control for application generated events, displays a partial list of event numbers and names.
router# show log event-control
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Log Events
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Application
ID# Event Name P g/s Logged Dropped
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CHASSIS:
2001 cardFailure MA gen 0 0
2002 cardInserted MI gen 2 0
2003 cardRemoved MI gen 0 0
2004 cardWrong MI gen 0 0
2005 EnvTemperatureTooHigh MA gen 0 0
2006 fanFailure CR gen 0 0
...
EFM_OAM:
2001 tmnxDot3OamPeerChanged MI gen 0 0
2002 tmnxDot3OamLoopDetected MI gen 0 0
2003 tmnxDot3OamLoopCleared MI gen 0 0
FILTER:
2001 tIPFilterPBRPacketsDrop WA gen 0 0
2002 tFilterEntryActivationFailed WA gen 0 0
2003 tFilterEntryActivationRestored WA gen 0 0
IGMP:
2001 vRtrIgmpIfRxQueryVerMismatch WA gen 0 0
2002 vRtrIgmpIfCModeRxQueryMismatch WA gen 0 0
2003 vRtrIgmpMaxGrpsLimitExceeded WA gen 0 0
2004 vRtrIgmpMcacPlcyDropped WA gen 0 0
IP:
L 2001 clearRTMError MI gen 0 0
L 2002 ipEtherBroadcast MI gen 0 0
L 2003 ipDuplicateAddress MI gen 0 0
L 2004 ipArpInfoOverwritten MI gen 0 0
L 2005 fibAddFailed MA gen 0 0
...
SYSTEM:
2001 stiDateAndTimeChanged WA gen 0 0
2002 ssiSaveConfigSucceeded MA gen 1 0
2003 ssiSaveConfigFailed CR gen 1 0
2004 sbiBootConfig MA gen 1 0
2005 sbiBootSnmpd MA gen 1 0
...
VRTR:
2001 tmnxVRtrMidRouteTCA MI gen 0 0
2002 tmnxVRtrHighRouteTCA MI gen 0 0
2003 tmnxVRtrHighRouteCleared MI gen 0 0
...
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