SYSLOG Message Format

The Syslog protocol itself does not define the format of the message payload, leaving it up to the sender to include any kind of structured data or unstructured human-readable string that is appropriate. Oracle ZFS Storage Appliance systems use the syslog subsystem tag ak to indicate a structured, parseable message payload, described next. Other subsystem tags indicate arbitrary human-readable text, but administrators should consider these string forms unstable and subject to change without notice or removal in future releases of the storage software.

Table 3-55 SYSLOG Message Formats

Facility Tag Name Description

daemon

ak

Generic tag for appliance subsystems. All alerts will be tagged ak, indicating a SUNW-MSG-ID follows.

daemon

idmap

Identity Mapping service for POSIX and Windows identity conversion. See Identity Mapping Configuration.

daemon

smbd

SMA Data Protocol for accessing shares. See SMB Configuration.