syslog help

[The_guroo_2]

guys if i have to log emergencies,alarms and critical do i have to write one line or do i have to put looging emergencies the n in oteh rline logging criticl....or does critical includes emergencies.....thanks

[Joe Clarke]

Higher severity numbers include lower severity numbers. Said differently, configuring a device to log less severe messages will also cause more severe messages to be logged. So, if you configure:

logging trap critical

The router will send sev 0, 1, and 2 messages to the syslog server.