Introduction to Logs748 Netscape Certificate Management System Installation and Setup Guide • March 2002Log Levels (Message Categories)For identification and filtering purposes, events logged by all CMS-supportedservices are classified into various categories. These are listed in Table 23-3. Eachcategory represents messages that are of the same or a similar nature or that belongto a specific functional area. A particular log, for example the error log, can recordentries that fall under one or more of these categories.In the CMS configuration, each message category corresponds to a specific loglevel. Log levels are represented by numbers (digits) 1 to 6, each digit indicatingthe level of logging to be performed by the server—that is, how detailed thelogging should be.• A higher priority level (a larger digit) means less detail because only events ofhigh priority are logged.• A lower priority level (a smaller digit) means greater detail because more kindsof events are recorded in the log file.Request Queue Specifies logged events related to the request queue activity of this server.User and Group Specifies logged events related to users and groups managed by this server.Table 23-3 Classification of log entries or messagesLog level Message category Description0 Debugging These messages contain debugging information.1 Informational(default selection foraudit log)These messages provide general information about the state ofCertificate Management System. For example, status messages such as“Certificate Management System initialization complete” and“Request for operation succeeded” fall into this category.2 Warning These messages are warnings only and do not indicate any failure inthe normal operation of the server.Table 23-2 Services logged by Certificate Management System (Continued)Service Description
