Oracle auditing using syslogs

Hello all....I am working on setting up the auditing to write to syslogs. I am having trouble understanding what to use for the facility and level. Can anyone point me in the right direction as to what these facilities and levels mean?
TIA

i believe those terms are related to syslog which is used on nix systems. if you are using nix then you should check the man page on syslog.conf.
as the docs state, the facility indicates where the message is coming from (such as the kernel, cron, local0 - local 7), and there's the level, which indicates how urgent the message is (info, warning, critical...).
i say this with never actually having used it though...
if you're using windows, well, .... i can't say.

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