send notification to trace log with `message text` and severity `severity level`

Mode

Syntax

send notification to trace log with `message` and severity `level`

Parameters

message
String. This text may contain policy parameters (described later in this section) to perform parameter substitution within the message text. If you select Evaluate as expression, the text in the field is evaluated as an arithmetic expression, and the result is used.
Note: If you are using a policy table for this parameter, click Use Policy Table, choose the field (column) representing the parameter.

Click OK.

level
One of the following:
  • Emergency (ID 4560)
  • Alert (ID 4561)
  • Critical (ID 4562)
  • Error (ID 4563)
  • Warning (ID 4564)
  • Notice (ID 4565)
  • Info (ID 4566)
  • Debug (ID 4567)
Note: If you are using a policy table for this parameter, click Use Policy Table, choose the field (column) representing the parameter.

Click OK.

Description

Sends a message to the trace log containing the specified message text and at the specified severity level. If the configured minimum notification severity level is higher than that specified in the policy action, then the policy action does not generate the notification.
Note: Policies written before V7.5 that used the action write `text` to the log file are converted to use this action, with the severity of Info.

Example

where the request is terminating an existing session 
And where the enforcement session is an IP-CAN session 
send notification to trace log with `### Alert :: Gx Session Terminated ###` and severity `Alert` 
continue processing message