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To enable the message control feature, you must specify an action, control interval, and maximum
message number. After you enable the feature, the log messages, which get repeated and cross the
maximum message number in the control interval, trigger the force message feature. You can either
suppress the message or send a trap notification, or both.
Procedure
1. Enter Global Configuration mode:
enable
configure terminal
2. Configure the force message control option:
sys force-msg WORD<4-4>
Example
Switch:1> enable
Switch:1# configure terminal
Configure the force message control option. (If you specify the wildcard pattern (****), then all
messages undergo message control:
Switch:1(config)# sys force-msg ****
Variable definitions
Use the data in the following table to use the sys force-msg command.
Table 26: Variable definitions
Variable Value
WORD<4-4> Adds a forced message control pattern, where WORD<4-4>
is a string of 4 characters. You can add a four-byte pattern
into the force-msg table. The software and the hardware log
messages that use the first four bytes that match one of the
patterns in the force-msg table undergo the configured
message control action. You can specify up to 32 different
patterns in the force-msg table, including a wildcard pattern
(****) as well. If you specify the wildcard pattern, all messages
undergo message control.
Run-time process management using ACLI
January 2017 Administering Avaya VSP 7200 Series and 8000 Series 66
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