syslog priority converter

syslog_convert.py

# Convert encoded syslog values into human-friendly facility and level names

severity_map = {
    0: 'emergency', 1: 'alert', 2: 'critical', 3: 'error',
    4: 'warning', 5: 'notice', 6: 'informational', 7: 'debug'
    }

facility_map = {
    0: 'kernel', 1: 'user', 2: 'mail', 3: 'daemon',
    4: 'auth', 5: 'syslog', 6: 'lpr', 7: 'news', 8: 'uucp',
    9: 'clock', 10: 'authpriv', 11: 'ftp', 12: 'ntp',
    13: 'logaudit', 14: 'logalert', 15: 'cron', 16: 'local0',
    17: 'local1', 18: 'local2', 19: 'local3', 20: 'local4',
    21: 'local5', 22: 'local6', 23: 'local7'
}


def convert_syslog_pri(priority):
    """ divide by 8 to get facility, calculate the remainder to get severity """
    return (priority/8, priority%8)

facility, severity = convert_syslog_pri(input("Enter encoded syslog value: "))

print "Facility: %s\nLevel: %s" % (facility_map[facility], severity_map[severity])