Technical Summary
This document contains a MIB module that defines textual
conventions to represent facility and severity information
commonly used in syslog messages. The intent is that these
textual conventions will be imported and used in MIB modules
that would otherwise define their own representations.
Working Group Summary
The consensus of the working group was to publish this as
a standards-track document.
Document Quality
These textual conventions standardize MIB representation of
facility and severity, concepts which are widely used in existing
implementations of syslog.
Personnel
The document shepherd is David Harrington. MIB Doctor review
was performed by Dan Romascanu. The responsible AD is Pasi Eronen.
RFC Editor Note
Section 3, DESCRIPTION of SyslogFacility
OLD:
In particular, the labels corresponding to Facility codes 4, 10,
13, and 14, and the code corresponding to the Facility label
'cron' are known to vary across different operating systems.
NEW:
In particular, the labels corresponding to Facility codes 4, 10,
13, and 14, and the code corresponding to the Facility label
'cron' are known to vary across different operating systems. To
distinguish between the labels corresponding to Facility codes 9
and 15, a label of 'cron2' is assigned to the Facility code 15.
Section 3, DESCRIPTION of SyslogFacility:
OLD:
The mapping specified here MUST be used in SNMP contexts, even
though a particular syslog implementation would use a different
mapping.
NEW:
The mapping specified here MUST be used in a MIB network
management interface, even though a particular syslog
implementation might use a different mapping in a different
network management interface.