[asterisk-users] Logging different verbosity levels

[Antony Stone]

Hi.

Does no-one else know either?  I thought this was a simple question, and it 
was just me being unable to find the appropriate documentation to explain how 
these logging levels work.

Please, can anyone help?

On Friday 20 May 2022 at 15:33:45, Antony Stone wrote:

> Hi.
> 
> I'm trying to use different logging verbosity levels to get dialplan output
> into different log files, and there's clearly something I haven't
> understood about how Asterisk does this...
> 
> 
> I have the following in /etc/asterisk/logger.conf:
> 
> [logfiles]
> logtest.verbose.0 => verbose(0)
> logtest.verbose.1 => verbose(1)
> logtest.verbose.2 => verbose(2)
> logtest.verbose.3 => verbose(3)
> logtest.verbose.4 => verbose(4)
> logtest.verbose.5 => verbose(5)
> logtest.verbose.6 => verbose(6)
> logtest.verbose.7 => verbose(7)
> logtest.verbose.8 => verbose(8)
> logtest.verbose.9 => verbose(9)
> 
> I then put the following at a particular point in my dialplan:
> 
> same => n,Verbose(0,Test message verbosity 0)
> same => n,Verbose(1,Test message verbosity 1)
> same => n,Verbose(2,Test message verbosity 2)
> same => n,Verbose(3,Test message verbosity 3)
> same => n,Verbose(4,Test message verbosity 4)
> same => n,Verbose(5,Test message verbosity 5)
> same => n,Verbose(6,Test message verbosity 6)
> same => n,Verbose(7,Test message verbosity 7)
> same => n,Verbose(8,Test message verbosity 8)
> same => n,Verbose(9,Test message verbosity 9)
> 
> I was expecting to get each message output into the respective filename,
> but instead I got 10 files with the expected filenames, and all containing
> every test message, no matter which verbosity level it was output at.
> 
> I'm sure there's just something basic which I haven't understaood from
> 
> https://wiki.asterisk.org/wiki/display/AST/Asterisk+16+Application_Verbose
> 
> and
> 
> https://wiki.asterisk.org/wiki/display/AST/Logging+Configuration
> 
> 
> Can someone please show me what I'm missing, so that I can get each
> Verbose(N,Message) dialplan command to send its message into the log file
> numbered N?
> 
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> 
> Antony.

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