I have several remote servers that are logging via regular syslog to my
central syslog-ng server. This is working fine. Now, I have
several distinct messages from different servers that I want to filter
to a single log file (without having anything else in this file).
I have tried setting it up but I'm having problems...<br>
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1.) I have made six filter lines in syslog-ng.conf that contain
the host/message combination I want to put in my special log. I
have named these six filters the same name (f_interest). I then
have a log line that contains the name of the filer (the filter name is
used for six filter declarations), and the destination for the file I
want to log to. My problem/question is, How does syslog-ng handle
multiple filters that have the same name? Each of these 6 filters
contain a host and word match I want to have interpreted. My
problem is nothing is getting logged to my log. Does syslog-ng
somehow combine these 6 filters because they have the same name?
I want each one to be interpreted separately from the others with the
same name. I only named them the same to prevent having to make 6
different log directives to the same file. <br>
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2.) How do I do a multiple not match. For instance I want to log
messages from serverA that do NOT contain the text, message1, or
message2, or message3, but log everything else from serverA.
Right now I do...<br>
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filter f_interest { not match("(message1|message2|message3)") and host(serverA); };<br>
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Does that look right?<br>
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Thanks in advance!!<br>