Specifications

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6 Performing system maintenance
You can perform various system maintenance tasks, including:
● Changing the log level
● Setting a poll interval for checking the status of the Altitude APs (Health Checking)
● Enabling and defining parameters for Syslog event reporting
● Forcing an immediate system shutdown, with or without reboot
● Resetting an Altitude AP to its factory defaults
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 Chapter 7, “Logs, traces, audits, and DHCP messages.”
NOTE
The term, 'Altitude AP', is used in this document to encompass all three variants - Altitude AP, Outdoor AP
(Siemens), and Altitude 802.11n AP. The variants are only specifically identified in the documentation where it is
necessary to do so.
The topics in this chapter are organized as follows:
● Changing logs levels and enabling Syslog event reporting
● Enabling/disabling poll timer
● Forcing immediate system shut down
● Resetting the Wireless APs to their factory default settings