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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">From: </span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">syslog-ng <syslog-ng-bounces@lists.balabit.hu> on behalf of Joshua <aces621@yahoo.com><br>
<b>Reply-To: </b>Joshua <aces621@yahoo.com>, Syslog-ng users' and developers' mailing list <syslog-ng@lists.balabit.hu><br>
<b>Date: </b>Monday, April 30, 2018 at 7:09 PM<br>
<b>To: </b>"syslog-ng@lists.balabit.hu" <syslog-ng@lists.balabit.hu><br>
<b>Subject: </b>[Suspected Spam] [syslog-ng] hostname not appearing correctly when receiving logs from switches<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><a name="_MailOriginalBody"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Hi All,<o:p></o:p></span></a></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark:_MailOriginalBody"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">I am pretty new to syslog-ng but do have some basic knowledge. I have deployed syslog-ng v3.14 on a newly deployed Linux server
because syslog-ng v3.5 is working very well on another syslog server. <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark:_MailOriginalBody"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">On this new deployment, the syslogs received from most of the servers are able to show IP/host, however, the syslogs from our
switches contains IP/host showing as ":" (colons). I copied the current working custom build .conf from another syslog server into our new server. Can someone help me figure out what I am missing? It is working for some components but not for switches. I tested
the same switch by sending syslog to another syslog server and the hostname is appearing but just not appearing on the new syslog server. The only difference between the two server is that one uses v3.5 (the working one) and the other uses syslog-ng v3.14.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark:_MailOriginalBody"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">I have set: "keep_hostname (yes)" but it still doesn't work.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark:_MailOriginalBody"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Can someone please help? Am I missing something here?<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark:_MailOriginalBody"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Thanks<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark:_MailOriginalBody"><em><b><u><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#00407F">Joshua Lai</span></u></b></em></span><span style="mso-bookmark:_MailOriginalBody"><em><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:#00407F"> </span></b></em></span><span style="mso-bookmark:_MailOriginalBody"></span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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