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smp_86112
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Apr 16, 2014

Generic log levels in alertd.conf (v11)

I was hoping someone could help me understand where these directives in the /etc/alertd/alertd.conf come from. It seems that they do what I would expect, which is send trap on every message of the co...
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nitass_89166
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Apr 17, 2014

Here's what I put in our user_alert.conf - it works.

alert BIGIP_MCPD_MCPDINFO_SYNC_DEVICEGROUP_COMPLETE { email toaddress="me@mydomain.com"; }

i understand it works because BIGIP_MCPD_MCPDINFO_SYNC_DEVICEGROUP_COMPLETE is predefined.

[root@ve11a:Active:In Sync] config  grep BIGIP_MCPD_MCPDINFO_SYNC_DEVICEGROUP_COMPLETE /var/run/bigip_error_maps.dat
0 LOG_NOTICE    010714a0 BIGIP_MCPD_MCPDINFO_SYNC_DEVICEGROUP_COMPLETE "Sync of device group %s to commit id %llu %llu %s %llu from device %s complete."
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    smp_86112
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    Apr 21, 2014
    > i understand it works because BIGIP_MCPD_MCPDINFO_SYNC_DEVICEGROUP_COMPLETE is predefined. Yes, so do I. But what I don't understand is why BIGIP_LOG_EMERG also works when that is not predefined.