DELL N3000 User Manual

Monitoring and Logging System Information

This chapter provides information about the features you use to monitor the 

switch, including logging, cable tests, and email alerting. The topics covered 

in this chapter include:

• System Monitoring Overview
• Default Log Settings
• Monitoring System Information and Configuring Logging (Web)
• Monitoring System Information and Configuring Logging (CLI)
• Logging Configuration Examples

The CLI and web-based interfaces provide information about physical 

aspects of the switch, such as system health and cable diagnostics, as well as 

information about system events, such as management login history. The 

switch also reports system resource usage.
The system logging utility can monitor a variety of events, including the 

following: 

• System events — System state changes and errors that range in severity 

from Emergency to Debug

• Audit events — Attempts to login or logout from the switch and attempts 

to perform any operations with files on the flash drive 

• CLI commands — Commands executed from the CLI
• Web page visits — Pages viewed by using OpenManage Switch 

Administrator

• SNMP events — SNMP 

set operations