Every TIBCO syslog message is created and logged in the form of a plain text ASCII string. Messages are then directed through TIBCO Messaging Appliance P-7500 systems, written to log (ordinary) files, and displayed to users using standard ASCII string handling operations. The logged message is the ASCII string that is written to a log file or to a user at a terminal. This is the string the system administrator or an ordinary user will actually see.
Each TIBCO syslog message belongs to a facility, which is a group of messages that are either generated by the same software process, or concern a similar TIBCO Messaging Appliance P-7500 subsystem condition or activity (such as debugging attempts).
Four non-configurable facility destinations are defined and reserved on the TIBCO Messaging Appliance P-7500 system for grouping together related messages from a facility to a log file: command, debug, event, and subscription (refer to
Table 12). Syslog message files from the four non-configurable destinations are all directed to a file on the local syslog message host.
In addition, two configurable facility destinations are available for configuration by users for grouping together related messages from a facility to a log file for forwarding to a remote syslog message host.
Each TIBCO syslog message is also preassigned a severity level, which indicates how seriously the triggering event affects routing platform functions. These message event severity levels are defined as an ordered list.
Table 13 defines the message severity levels, from highest level to lowest.
The associated facility and severity level of a syslog message are together referred to as its priority. By default, priority information is not included in syslog messages.