[c-nsp] annoying SYS-6-EXIT_CONFIG messages

[Tassos Chatzithomaoglou]

Łukasz Bromirski wrote on 27/08/2010 01:13:
> On 2010-08-26 22:37, Jared Mauch wrote:
>
>> It's more about the culture at Cisco of "we can introduce
> > undocumented changes at our own whim and not give you knobs
> > to disable them".
>
> This feature was introduced as a feature request from a number of
> accounts, it is documented in syslog messages reference guide.
> With such widespread number of different customers, it's hard to
> choose only features that are OK for 100% of them.
>
Who would want to know that a user exited a tty session through a syslog 
message and why?

--
Tassos

> While I understand your frustration, new syslog messages are normally
> not part of release notes information.
>
> Now, there's syslog feature for filtering the messages, so for
> example for buffered target, you may set something like this:
>
> logging discriminator TEST facility drops SYS mnemonics drops EXIT_CONFIG
> logging buffered discriminator TEST
>
> Of course for remote logging host it may be:
>
> logging host 3.3.3.3 discriminator TEST
>
> HTH although it's a workaround not a 'knob' to turn it on/off,