Wireshark is going to be a bit impossible as these are servers without front-end displays and without X installed. Strictly console-related VM server instances.

Here's a link to my configuration just in case anyone wants to take a gander:

http://www.murpe.com/syslog-ng-v3.conf.txt

We are using TLS encryption (a requirement) and a destination breakdown (another requirement). Other than that, we just need some simple filtering for keywords that appear hundreds to thousands of times on our many RHEL servers that has SELinux and auditing enabled.

-- M

From: syslog-ng-bounces@lists.balabit.hu [syslog-ng-bounces@lists.balabit.hu] On Behalf Of Matthew Hall [mhall@mhcomputing.net]
Sent: Monday, September 20, 2010 7:53 PM
To: Syslog-ng users' and developers' mailing list
Subject: Re: [syslog-ng] Converting filtering from 2.1 to 3.0?

On Mon, Sep 20, 2010 at 05:44:10PM -0600, syslogng@feystorm.net wrote:
> Your first line should be working. Not sure why it is not.
> However you can try using: not message('Audit daemon rotating log
> files' flags('ignore-case'))
> Simpler and does exactly what your old config did.

My only guess so far besides an outright bug: the message is formatted
wrong inside the Syslog packet and the packet parser behavior changed
from the old version to the new version in such a way that the macros
are not being populated with the strings we expect.

However I have set up several PCRE filters against message content using
3.1 and have not seen anything broken. So the bug possibility seems
unlikely compared to an issue parsing the particular string.

It would be helpful if we could get the tshark -V or full Wireshark
payload of a message that fails to decode so we could see what was
contained in the original packet.

Matthew.
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