<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class="">Just a heads up - Cisco Nexus devices have a different format than normal ios devices, it’s kind of obnoxious.<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">2017 Apr 26 18:04:43</div><div class=""><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On May 3, 2017, at 2:26 AM, Fekete, Róbert <<a href="mailto:robert.fekete@balabit.com" class="">robert.fekete@balabit.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class="">Hi, you can find the description of junctions and channels here: <a href="https://www.balabit.com/documents/syslog-ng-ose-latest-guides/en/syslog-ng-ose-guide-admin/html/junctions.html" class="">https://www.balabit.com/documents/syslog-ng-ose-latest-guides/en/syslog-ng-ose-guide-admin/html/junctions.html</a><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">and here: <a href="https://www.balabit.com/documents/syslog-ng-ose-latest-guides/en/syslog-ng-ose-guide-admin/html/embedded-objects.html" class="">https://www.balabit.com/documents/syslog-ng-ose-latest-guides/en/syslog-ng-ose-guide-admin/html/embedded-objects.html</a></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br class=""><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, May 3, 2017 at 1:54 AM, Schoonover, Mark E HHHH <span dir="ltr" class=""><<a href="mailto:Mark.Schoonover@cigna.com" target="_blank" class="">Mark.Schoonover@cigna.com</a>></span> wrote:<br class=""><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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<div class="m_6663583174063366173WordSection1"><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1f497d" class="">Thanks Bazsi,<u class=""></u><u class=""></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1f497d" class=""><u class=""></u> <u class=""></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1f497d" class="">It is a challenge that’s for sure. Looking at the code, I think it’ll parse a Cisco syslog message like this:<u class=""></u><u class=""></u></span></p><span class=""><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1f497d" class=""><u class=""></u> <u class=""></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1f497d" class="">Apr 26 14:04:45 hostname 565049: Apr 26 18:04:43.476 UTC: %EARL-DFC1-1-EXCESSIVE_PARITY_<wbr class="">ERROR: EARL 0: Parity error detected in VRAM<u class=""></u><u class=""></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1f497d" class=""><u class=""></u> <u class=""></u></span></p>
</span><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1f497d" class="">This snippet<u class=""></u><u class=""></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1f497d" class=""> csv-parser(delimiters(chars('-<wbr class="">')) template("$3")<u class=""></u><u class=""></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1f497d" class=""> columns('.cisco.facility', '.cisco.severity', '.cisco.mnemonic'));<u class=""></u><u class=""></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1f497d" class=""><u class=""></u> <u class=""></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1f497d" class="">into:<u class=""></u><u class=""></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1f497d" class=""><u class=""></u> <u class=""></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1f497d" class="">.cisco.facility = EARL<u class=""></u><u class=""></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1f497d" class="">.cisco.severity = DFC1<u class=""></u><u class=""></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1f497d" class="">.cisco.mnemonic = 1<u class=""></u><u class=""></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1f497d" class=""><u class=""></u> <u class=""></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1f497d" class="">I’m not familiar with channels and junctions and didn’t find anything in the OSE admin manual. Possibly I’m not fully understanding either.<u class=""></u><u class=""></u></span></p><span class=""><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1f497d" class=""><u class=""></u> <u class=""></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Consolas;color:#1f497d" class="">Regards,<u class=""></u><u class=""></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Consolas;color:#1f497d" class=""><u class=""></u> <u class=""></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Consolas;color:#1f497d" class="">Mark Schoonover – KA6WKE<u class=""></u><u class=""></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Consolas;color:#1f497d" class="">Infrastructure Engineering Manager, Splunk Architect<u class=""></u><u class=""></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Consolas;color:#1f497d" class="">ENE : Tools, Instrumentation and Common Services Team<u class=""></u><u class=""></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Consolas;color:#1f497d" class="">Office: 32.8697° N, 116.9711° W
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</span><p class="MsoNormal"><b class=""><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif" class="">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif" class=""> syslog-ng [mailto:<a href="mailto:syslog-ng-bounces@lists.balabit.hu" target="_blank" class="">syslog-ng-bounces@<wbr class="">lists.balabit.hu</a>]
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</div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt">I am in the process of writing a cisco-parser() myself, which uses a combination of csv-parser() and regexps, pattern-db is not very well suited for breaking apart Cisco like conditional structure (which depends
on various settings on the cisco side).<u class=""></u><u class=""></u></p>
</div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt">While handling various settings (service sequence-numbers, service timestamps, logging origin-id, etc), it achieves about 37k msg/sec. What is your target number with regards to performance?<u class=""></u><u class=""></u></p>
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<div class=""><p class="MsoNormal">On Tue, May 2, 2017 at 2:17 AM, Schoonover, Mark E HHHH <<a href="mailto:Mark.Schoonover@cigna.com" target="_blank" class="">Mark.Schoonover@cigna.com</a>> wrote:<u class=""></u><u class=""></u></p>
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<div class=""><p class="MsoNormal">Thanks for reading,<u class=""></u><u class=""></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"> <u class=""></u><u class=""></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">I’m in the process of creating a log to trap for Cisco devices. I have it working for facilities like this: TRINITY-2-TRINITY_SYSLOG_CRIT with this pattern:<u class=""></u><u class=""></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"> <u class=""></u><u class=""></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">@ESTRING::%@@ESTRING:.cisco.<wbr class="">Facility:-@@ESTRING:.cisco.<wbr class="">Severity:-@@ESTRING:.cisco.<wbr class="">MsgName::@ @ANYSTRING:.cisco.MsgText@<u class=""></u><u class=""></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"> <u class=""></u><u class=""></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">Now there are other facilities with an additional hyphen before the severity: EARL-DFC1-1-EXCESSIVE_PARITY_<wbr class="">ERROR:<u class=""></u><u class=""></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"> <u class=""></u><u class=""></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">Apr 26 14:04:45 hostname 565049: Apr 26 18:04:43.476 UTC: %EARL-DFC1-1-EXCESSIVE_PARITY_<wbr class="">ERROR: EARL 0: Parity error detected in VRAM'<u class=""></u><u class=""></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"> <u class=""></u><u class=""></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">which parses into:<u class=""></u><u class=""></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"> <u class=""></u><u class=""></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Consolas" class="">Testing message: program='EARL-DFC1-1-<wbr class="">EXCESSIVE_PARITY_ERROR' message='Apr 26 14:04:45 hostname 565049: Apr 26 18:04:43.476 UTC: %EARL-DFC1-1-EXCESSIVE_PARITY_<wbr class="">ERROR:
EARL 0: Parity error detected in VRAM'</span><u class=""></u><u class=""></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Consolas" class="">Match name='.classifier.rule_id', value='09944c71-95eb-4bc0-<wbr class="">8575-936931d85715', expected='09944c71-95eb-4bc0-<wbr class="">8575-936931d85715'</span><u class=""></u><u class=""></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Consolas" class="">Wrong match name='.cisco.Facility', value='EARL', expected='EARL-DFC1'</span><u class=""></u><u class=""></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Consolas" class="">Wrong match name='.cisco.Severity', value='DFC1', expected='1'</span><u class=""></u><u class=""></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Consolas" class="">Wrong match name='.cisco.MsgName', value='1-EXCESSIVE_PARITY_<wbr class="">ERROR', expected='EXCESSIVE_PARITY_<wbr class="">ERROR'</span><u class=""></u><u class=""></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Consolas" class="">Match name='.cisco.MsgText', value='EARL 0: Parity error detected in VRAM', expected='EARL 0: Parity error detected in VRAM'</span><u class=""></u><u class=""></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"> <u class=""></u><u class=""></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">I’ve tried a pattern that would parse EARL and DFC1 into separate variables, then append them into .cisco.Facility – which didn’t work. Still that leaves the pattern hardcoded to
just two hypens. I’ve also tried hard coding EARL-DFC1 into the pattern, then use value to set .cisco.Facility correctly. This approach works but being hardcoded, another Facility with embedded hyphens will fail. Ideally I’d like to have a pattern that matches
on the last hyphen before the severity and capture that. I could parse using a regexp and setting $1, $2, $3, and $4 to the appropriate variables but I’m concerned about performance issues – I’m thinking this is a last resort solution.<u class=""></u><u class=""></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"> <u class=""></u><u class=""></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">Any thoughts on how to proceed?<u class=""></u><u class=""></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"> <u class=""></u><u class=""></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Consolas" class="">Regards,</span><u class=""></u><u class=""></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Consolas" class=""> </span><u class=""></u><u class=""></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Consolas" class="">Mark Schoonover – KA6WKE</span><u class=""></u><u class=""></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Consolas" class="">Infrastructure Engineering Manager, Splunk Architect</span><u class=""></u><u class=""></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Consolas" class="">ENE : Tools, Instrumentation and Common Services Team</span><u class=""></u><u class=""></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Consolas" class="">Office: 32.8697° N, 116.9711° W
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