Monitoring and Logging System Information 235• Line number —The line number which contains the invoking macro.• Sequence number —The message sequence number for this stackcomponent. Sequence numbers may be skipped because of filtering butare always monotonically increasing on a per-stack member basis.• Message — Contains the text of the log message.What Factors Should Be Considered When Configuring Logging?Dell recommends that network administrators deploy a syslog server in theirnetwork and configure all switches to log messages to the syslog server.Default Log SettingsSystem logging is enabled, and messages are sent to the console (severitylevel: warning and above), and RAM log (severity level: informational andabove). Switch auditing, CLI command logging, Web logging, and SNMPlogging are disabled. No messages are sent to the log file that is stored in flash,and no remote log servers are defined.Email alerting is disabled, and no recipient email address is configured.Additionally, no mail server is defined. If you add a mail server, by default, noauthentication or security protocols are configured, and the switch uses TCPport 25 for SMTP.After you enable email alerting and configure the mail server and recipientemail address, log messages with a severity level of emergency and alert aresent immediately with each log message in a separate mail. The email subjectis “Urgent Log Messages.” Log messages with a severity level of critical, error,and warning are sent periodically in a single email. The email subject is “NonUrgent Log Messages.” Messages with a severity level of notice and below arenot sent in an email.
