Description: This persistent variable indicates the desired severity level or levels (and qualifiers) for viewing the 'logRecTable'. This control variable thus acts as a severity level viewing filter.

'critical' is the highest severity level, followed in decreasing order by 'major', 'minor', 'warning', and 'normal', which is the lowest severity level. These severity levels can be further qualified with an indication that the 'health' of the system is effected because of this event. In such a case, these events are indicated with the '-health' suffix ( 'critical-health', 'major-health', 'minor-health', 'warning-health', 'normal-health').

Specifying a severity level with this variable indicates that ONLY log events of that level will be available for retrieval via the 'logRecTable'. For example, if this variable was set to 'major-health', only log events with a severity level of 'major' and a health qualifier will be viewed when the 'logRecTable' is next retrieved. If this variable was set to 'warning', only log events with a severity level of 'warning' and NO health qualifier will be viewed when the 'logRecTable' is next retrieved.

The values 'all', 'all-health-NORMALIZED', 'all-health-not-NORMALIZED', 'all-health', and 'all-non-health' allow a broader range of log events to be retrieved. As implied by the names, 'all' will enable the log records to be retrieved; 'all-health-NORMALIZED' allows all records qualified with a health indicator that have been NORMALIZED to be retrieved; 'all-health-not-NORMALIZED' allows all records qualified with a health indicator that have NOT been NORMALIZED to be retrieved; 'all-health' will allow any log records that effect health to be retrieved, and 'all-non-health' will allow all log records that DO NOT effect health to be retrieved.

The default value is 'all'.

The value of this variable, 'logViewSeverityFilter', effects 'logViewEvents' which indicates the number of log records that would be viewable by retrieving all pages of 'logRecTable' when using the filtering criteria of this variable.

Setting this variable to any value forces 'logViewPageControl' to be set to 1.

'other' indicates a class of log record, rather than a severity level. The severity level of 'other' is considered less important than 'normal'. 'other' primarily is used to indicate a 'Debug' type of log record. Log records of severity level 'other' can be viewed when 'logViewSeverityFilter' is set to either 'all', or 'other'.

The retrieval of the 'logRecTable' is effected by the other viewing variables, which provide sorting and page controls. These other variables are: 'logViewPageSize', 'logViewPageControl', 'logViewMethod', 'logViewDirection', 'logViewAge'.