Hi,

My log source sends data over syslog in CEF (Arcsight format).

I have a simple parser written in Syslog-NG that takes advantage of the CEF format (that is all messages are in eight fields separated by a pipe char).

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parser p_cef {
    csv-parser(columns("cef.ff","cef.vendor","cef.product","cef.c4","cef.c5","cef.c6","cef.c7","cef.c8")
    delimiters("|")
    flags(drop-invalid)
    );
};

destination d_file { file("/var/log/net/${cef.vendor}/${cef.product}/logfile"); };

log { source(s_tcp); parser(p_cef); destination(d_file); };
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Some events coming in contain binary data that get translated into control characters and create thousands of directories with garbage in the names.

How do I handle binary data in the message? Should I use the sanitize function in the destination/file definition or is there a better way to do it?

Also, how do I create a catch-all destination for all the messages that do not match my parser?

Thanks!