Event Control

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 as they never reach the log manager.

Simple event throttling is another method of event control and is configured in the same way as 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 describes 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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ATM:
   2011 tAtmPlcpSubLayerClear            MI  gen          0           0
   2012 tAtmEpOutOfPeerVpiOrVciRange     WA  gen          0           0
   2013 tAtmMaxPeerVccsExceeded          WA  gen          0           0
...
CHASSIS:
   2001 cardFailure                      MA  gen          0           0
   2002 cardInserted                     MI  gen          7           0
   2003 cardRemoved                      MI  gen          0           0
...
DEBUG:
L  2001 traceEvent                       MI  gen          0           0
EFM_OAM:
   2001 tmnxDot3OamPeerChanged           MI  gen          0           0
   2002 tmnxDot3OamLoopDetected          MI  gen          0           0
FILTER:
   2001 tIPFilterPBRPacketsDrop          WA  gen          0           0
   2002 tFilterEntryActivationFailed     WA  gen          0           0
   2003 tFilterEntryActivationRestored   WA  gen          0           0
GSMP:
   2001 tmnxAncpIngRateMonitorEvent      WA  gen          0           0
L  2002 tmnxAncpIngRateMonitorEventL     WA  gen          0           0
   2003 tmnxAncpEgrRateMonitorEvent      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
...
LDP:
   2001 vRtrLdpStateChange               MI  gen          0           0
   2002 vRtrLdpInstanceStateChange       MI  gen          0           0
   2003 vRtrLdpIfStateChange             MI  gen          0           0
...
LOGGER:
L  2001 STARTED                          MI  gen          5           0
   2002 tmnxLogTraceError                CR  gen          0           0
   2005 tmnxLogSpaceContention           MA  gen          0           0
... 
MPLS:
   2001 mplsXCUp                         WA  gen          0           0
   2002 mplsXCDown                       WA  gen          0           0
   2003 mplsTunnelUp                     WA  gen          0           0
... 
NTP:
   2001 tmnxNtpAuthMismatch              WA  gen          0           0
   2002 tmnxNtpNoServersAvail            MA  gen          0           0
   2003 tmnxNtpServersAvail              MI  gen          0           0   
...   
SYSTEM:
   2001 stiDateAndTimeChanged            WA  gen          0           0
   2002 ssiSaveConfigSucceeded           MA  gen          0           0
   2003 ssiSaveConfigFailed              CR  gen          0           0
...   
USER:
L  2001 cli_user_login                   MI  gen          4           0
L  2002 cli_user_logout                  MI  gen          3           0
L  2003 cli_user_login_failed            MI  gen          0           0
...
VRTR:
   2001 tmnxVRtrMidRouteTCA              MI  gen          0           0
   2002 tmnxVRtrHighRouteTCA             MI  gen          0           0
   2003 tmnxVRtrHighRouteCleared         MI  gen          0           0
...
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router#