Logging Severity Levels
Level Numeric Code System Condition
Emergency 0 System unusable message
Alert 1 Take immediate action
Critical 2 Critical condition
Error 3 Error message
Warning 4 Warning message
Notification 5 Normal but significant condition
Informational 6 Information message
Debug 7 Debug message, log FTP commands, and WWW URLs
Foundation Summary 265
System log messages received at a syslog server begin with a percent sign (%) and are
structured as follows:
%PIX-level-message_number: message_text
You can set the level with the logging command so that you can view syslog messages on the
Security Appliance console, from a syslog server, or with SNMP.