User guide

Performing System Maintenance
Summit WM20 User Guide, Software Release 4.2200
Performing System Maintenance Tasks
You can perform various maintenance tasks, including:
● Changing the log level
● Setting a poll interval for checking the status of the Wireless APs (Health Checking)
● Enabling and defining parameters for Syslog event reporting
● Forcing an immediate system shutdown, with or without reboot
Syslog event reporting uses the syslog protocol to relay event messages to a centralized event server on
your enterprise network. In the protocol a device generates messages, a relay receives and forwards the
messages, and a collector (a syslog server) receives the messages without relaying them.
NOTE
The log statements Low water mark level was reached and Incoming message dropped, because of the rate limiting
mechanism indicate that there is a burst of log messages coming to the event server and the processing speed is
slower than the incoming rate of log messages. These messages do not indicate that the system is impaired in any
way. For more information, see “Viewing Log, Alarm and Trace Messages” on page 211.
To change the log levels:
1 From the main menu, click Summit Switch. The Summit Switch Configuration screen is displayed.
2 In the System Log Level section, from the Summit Switch Log Level drop-down list, select the least
severe log level for the Controller that you want to receive: Information, Minor, Major, Critical. For