Hi, for the cleared severity, I agree that "notice" is fitting, however, it has the disadvantage that your mapping now is no longer reversible if you use the same for severity "minor". Judgment call as to want to want to retain a distinction between minor and cleared severities when doing the mapping (they clearly have different semantics), or want to put them into the same thing. As X.733 distinguishes 6 severities and syslog 8, I think it would be nice if they could still be distinguished in a syslog mapping.
For the other severities, I do think that the mapping as currently stated in section 6.2.3.1 would result in altering respectively losing the semantics of the severities of what is being mapped. The proposal on the other hand largely preserves the semantics, with the one caveat on "cleared" as mentioned above. For your reference, I am pasting below the definition of severities from X.733. Major is clearly more than just an error; if it were mapped to that the notion that urgent corrective action is required (part of the X.733 definition) is lost. Minor has semantics that are quite different from major, also for example that it's non-service affecting. My concern is that if they are all mapped into the same syslog severity and distinction between X.733 is not preserved, that it raises the question if it makes sense to outline a mapping of severities in the syslog protocol at all. Thanks --- Alex X.733 snippet (from X.733 section 8.1.2.3): - cleared: The Cleared severity level indicates the clearing of one or more previously reported alarms. This alarm clears all alarms for this managed object that have the same Alarm type, Probable cause and Specific problems (if given). Multiple associated notifications may be cleared by using the Correlated notifications parameter (defined below). This Recommendation | International Standard does not require that the clearing of previously reported alarms be reported. Therefore, a managing system cannot assume that the absence of an alarm with the Cleared severity level means that the condition that caused the generation of previous alarms is still present. Managed object definers shall state if, and under which conditions, the Cleared severity level is used. - indeterminate: The Indeterminate severity level indicates that the severity level cannot be determined. - critical: The Critical severity level indicates that a service affecting condition has occurred and an immediate corrective action is required. Such a severity can be reported, for example, when a managed object becomes totally out of service and its capability must be restored. - major: The Major severity level indicates that a service affecting condition has developed and an urgent corrective action is required. Such a severity can be reported, for example, when there is a severe degradation in the capability of the managed object and its full capability must be restored. - minor: The Minor severity level indicates the existence of a non-service affecting fault condition and that corrective action should be taken in order to prevent a more serious (for example, service affecting) fault. Such a severity can be reported, for example, when the detected alarm condition is not currently degrading the capacity of the managed object. - warning: The Warning severity level indicates the detection of a potential or impending service affecting fault, before any significant effects have been felt. Action should be taken to further diagnose (if necessary) and correct the problem in order to prevent it from becoming a more serious service affecting fault. -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Sharon Chisholm Sent: Thursday, June 02, 2005 11:01 AM To: syslog-sec@employees.org Subject: RE: Draft 12 (was: RE: X.733 (was: RE: [Syslog-sec] Syslog protocoldraft(draft-ietf-syslog-protocol-11.txt))) hi I'm just context switching back here. Cleared is definitely not informational. I image people filtering on severity and a clear is a very important piece of information when looking at Alarms. It should not be lumped in with 'informational'. The ID seems to only provide the following formal definitions of its own severities. If more are implied from other sources they should be referenced: Emergency: system is unusable Alert: action must be taken immediately Critical: critical conditions Error: error conditions Warning: warning conditions Notice: normal but significant conditions Informational: informational messages Debug: debug-level messages Nothing indicates that action is not required in the case of a critical. I believe it is implicit. In fact, I suspect action is required for emergency as well. I believe the terms match reasonably well and subtle differences do not justify the confusion that would be caused by having a non-straightforward mapping (critical=minor and minor=Tuesday). Given the above, I believe it falls out that Major is then an Error. Sharon -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Alexander Clemm (alex) Sent: Thursday, June 02, 2005 1:20 PM To: syslog-sec@employees.org Subject: Draft 12 (was: RE: X.733 (was: RE: [Syslog-sec] Syslog protocoldraft(draft-ietf-syslog-protocol-11.txt))) Hi, I noticed that the below comment on the relationship to the alarm MIB and X.733 severities was not adopted in the latest draft. I can't remember having seen objections to this on the mailer; I think that this mapping would have advantages in that is would be semantically cleaner and less ambiguous and would therefore like to repropose to incorporate it into a subsequent version. Kind regards --- Alex -----Original Message----- From: Alexander Clemm (alex) Sent: Tuesday, May 10, 2005 5:27 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; syslog-sec@employees.org Subject: X.733 (was: RE: [Syslog-sec] Syslog protocol draft(draft-ietf-syslog-protocol-11.txt)) Hi, I also have the following additional comment on section 6.2.3.1 - Relation to Alarm MIB. X.733 defines a critical severity as that a service impacting event has occurred and immediate corrective action is required. This appears to correspond to a syslog severity of "Alert", not "Critical" (unfortunately, both X.733 and syslog use the term critical, but their semantics is not exactly the same). X.733 severity of "minor" corresponds to syslog severity of "Error", agree. However, X.733 severity of "major" is in X.733 defined quite different from "minor" and requires "urgent" corrective action. It would appear appropriate to map it into syslog "Critical", not "Error" as well, which would make it indistinguishable from "minor". Finally, it would be nice if X.733 "Cleared" and "Indeterminate" would not both be mapped to the same syslog severity. Yes, it is possible to use "Notice" for both, but why not map "Cleared" to "Informational" instead (since it really indicates that a condition has gone away)? That would result in the following table: X.733 - Syslog -------------- X.733 Critical - Syslog Alert X.733 Major - Syslog Critical X.733 Minor - Syslog Error X.733 Warning - Syslog Warning X.733 Indeterminate - Syslog Notice X.733 Cleared - Syslog Informational --- Alex -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Alexander Clemm (alex) Sent: Monday, May 02, 2005 8:47 AM To: syslog-sec@employees.org Subject: [Syslog-sec] Syslog protocol draft(draft-ietf-syslog-protocol-11.txt) Resending due to apparent mailer problems, apologies if you receive multiple copies Hello, I am currently going through the syslog protocol draft, draft-ietf-syslog-protocol-11.txt. A couple of thoughts, suggestions, topics for discussion: Basic principles (section 4): May want to clarify: Will relays be allowed to send messages to multiple receivers? (Not listed as one of the scenarios.) May relays alter a message? (Currently, yes, at least with regards to truncation; should be explicit in discussing what aspects of a message may and what aspects may not be altered.) Required syslog format: There are essentially 3 parts of the message which identify the originator of the message, not even counting the host name: Facility, App-Name, Proc-ID. - Should they be grouped together - why separate them for example with the truncate field - may want to take a look at the order of the fields. I would think that the truncate field should in fact either appear after the version field, or right before the structured data field. - Why would facility consist only of digits, not alphanumeric characters - Are three fields really needed? It seems that it makes sense to allow to identify the type of the subsystem or application that generates the syslog message, as well as the particular instance in case there are several. This makes two fields. Why a third field? Concerning message length: would it make sense to allow for a means by which messages could be fragmented, as an option in addition to truncating? This could be addressed by having standard structured data elements that specify a message as part 1 of 2, for example. Of course, with regards to relays it may imply that messages may need to be altered by relays accordingly. Relationship to Alarm MIB (Section 6.2.3.1 )- suggest adding a table that lists the corresponding relation. Also, really the proper reference to use is probably the ITU specification, X.733. The structured data is an extremely important concept, as this provides for extensibility and separates the "core" fields from the "extension" fields. For the structured data, would it make sense considering to reserve a prefix character (for example, the underscore character) for the SD-name that should not be used for vendor-defined SD elements, so that if later extensions to the syslog protocol are standardized in form of new SD elements there won't be conflicts - or vice versa, to require vendor extensions to start with it? --- Alex _______________________________________________ Syslog-sec mailing list Syslog-sec@www.employees.org http://www.employees.org/mailman/listinfo/syslog-sec _______________________________________________ Syslog-sec mailing list Syslog-sec@www.employees.org http://www.employees.org/mailman/listinfo/syslog-sec _______________________________________________ Syslog-sec mailing list Syslog-sec@www.employees.org http://www.employees.org/mailman/listinfo/syslog-sec _______________________________________________ Syslog-sec mailing list Syslog-sec@www.employees.org http://www.employees.org/mailman/listinfo/syslog-sec
