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Cisco ASA Config Displays All Logging Messages

Asked by: billfinkri

When issuing a "show config" while on the command line in our Cisco ASA 5520, does it list each and every "logging message xxxxxx informational" line.

Is there a way to supress those (logging message) lines when I issue a "show config" on the CLI?

It was not always like this.

Many thanks.

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2008-08-18 at 12:23:26ID23657439
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Cisco PIX Firewall

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Answers

 

by: stsonlinePosted on 2008-08-18 at 13:32:23ID: 22255270

Somewhere logging to the console was apparently turned on. From priv mode, type:

asa5520# config term
asa5520 (config)# no logging console
asa5520 (config)# exit
asa5520#

... and that will turn off those messages.

 

by: billfinkriPosted on 2008-08-18 at 13:37:43ID: 22255300


Thanks for the suggestion, at the command prompt executing "sho run" ... here is a snippet.

Of course the list is HUGE with "logging message xxxxxx informational"

I tried "no logging console" but it doesn't surpress those lines.

What's odd about all of this is it never used to be that way.

Bill

==========================

logging host inside 1.2.3.4
logging permit-hostdown
logging message 718069 level informational
logging message 716021 level informational
logging message 713205 level informational
logging message 331002 level informational
logging message 718070 level informational
logging message 716022 level informational
logging message 713204 level informational
logging message 718071 level informational
logging message 716023 level informational
logging message 713207 level informational
logging message 718064 level informational
logging message 716016 level informational
logging message 713206 level informational
logging message 718065 level informational
logging message 716017 level informational
logging message 713209 level informational
logging message 718066 level informational
logging message 716018 level informational
logging message 713208 level informational
logging message 402114 level informational
logging message 718067 level informational
logging message 716019 level informational

 

by: stsonlinePosted on 2008-08-18 at 13:42:49ID: 22255328

Maybe I misunderstood your question... do you want to stop seeing the messages being logged to the console, or do you want to stop seeing the part of the config file showing the lines noted above? If it's the latter, there isn't a way - you asked it to show you the running config and those lines are part of that configuration.

BTW, those lines are log message types (hence the numbers) that someone explicitly asked to see - the reason they weren't there before is someone had to add them into the config at some point in the past.

 

by: billfinkriPosted on 2008-08-18 at 13:58:01ID: 22255434

To answer your question, I want to stop seeing those lines in the config.

RE:  "BTW, those lines are log message types (hence the numbers) that someone explicitly asked to see - the reason they weren't there before is someone had to add them into the config at some point in the past."

?? There must over 100 of those lines .. there wouldn't be anyone who would have typed those lines in besides myself - I'm confident I didn't type those in.

RE: "There isn't a way" to avoid those lines being displayed

This is interesting... I'll accept the solution if there are no other responses.

Thanks truly for your time.

 

by: billfinkriPosted on 2008-08-19 at 05:30:37ID: 22259125

negating each and everyone of those lines solved my problem.

Thank goodness for search and replace.

i.e.

ciscoasa#

no logging message 718069 level informational
no logging message 716021 level informational
no logging message 713205 level informational
no logging message 331002 level informational
no logging message 718070 level informational
no logging message 716022 level informational
no logging message 713204 level informational

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