[cisco-voip] OT: IOS Embedded Syslog Manager

[Wes Sisk]

Looks like it was a bug:
https://supportforums.cisco.com/thread/2044372?tstart=0

/Wes

Anthony Holloway wrote:
> I have never worked with this feature before, but you are returning an 
> empty string:  return "".
>
> You could try any simply using the return keyword without the empty 
> string value.  If it absolutely needs something, you could try a 
> boolean:  return false.
>
> Anthony
>
> On Tue, Sep 28, 2010 at 1:43 PM, Ed Leatherman <ealeatherman at gmail.com 
> <mailto:ealeatherman at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>     Not strictly VOIP related but lots of smart people on this list so
>     figured i'd try it....
>
>     Trying to setup an ESM script to block interface up/down and
>     eventually CDP and POE messages (ie phone stuff) from being sent to
>     remote syslog.
>     This is a very basic script so there is apparently something
>     fundamental i'm not grasping here...
>
>     Script looks like this (i pilfered from netpro forums):
>     set msgs [ list {LINK-3-UPDOWN} {LINEPROTO-5-UPDOWN}]
>     set fac_sev_mnem "${::facility}-${::severity}-${::mnemonic}"
>     foreach msg $msgs {
>      if {$msg == $fac_sev_mnem }  {
>       return ""
>     }
>     }
>     return $::orig_msg
>
>
>     So I think the logic works fine, it passes messages through to syslog
>     that i'm not interested in filtering, however the messages that match
>     (LINK-3-UPDOWN etc) it is basically sending a blank line rather than
>     not sending at all. Is this working as intended?
>
>     TIA !
>
>
>
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