Notice that the default trap (message from device to NMS) level is informational, but
you can change this too. And now that you’ve seen the default system message format on
a Cisco device, I want to show you how you can also control the format of your messages
via sequence numbers and time stamps, which aren’t enabled by default. We’ll begin with a
basic, very simple example of how to configure a device to send messages to a syslog server,
demonstrated in Figure 17.12.