hi Ok. Is this the difference then for the three fields:
Facility: Administratively assigned bucket Category: Fixed bucket Message ID: The very smallest grouping of things without getting into instance-specific information? Sharon -------------------- <Rainer> > > <Rainer> > > S1. In section 6, what is the relationship between Facility > > and MSG-ID? They > > seem to serve the same purpose. Is Facility just historical? > > Is MSG-ID what > > we need to use moving forward? (see G3) > > I added this text to the description of FACILITY: > > #### > It is RECOMMENDED that the facility > reflects a type of subsystem, something that a number of > different messages > might be issued from. So it is a kind of corase group. #### > > Does this clarify? Do we need to add similar text to MSGID (in that it > identifies a specific message)? To keep it short, I've not > done this yet. > > </Rainer> > <Sharon> > Now I'm left wondering how this relates to a category. </Sharon> Yes, you are right. It is a category. But it is not a fixed one, the administrator can assign it. </Rainer> Sharon Chisholm Nortel Ottawa, Ontario Canada _______________________________________________ Syslog-sec mailing list Syslog-sec@www.employees.org http://www.employees.org/mailman/listinfo/syslog-sec
