Hi,

Yup, either rfc5424 based format or simple plain old syslog, depending on what the SIEM can accept.

syslog(transport(tcp)) is good as it supports both rfc5424 and traditional and has framing, thus can support multiline logs.

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Bazsi

On Fri, Sep 30, 2016 at 11:48 AM, Denis Dolinský <denis.dolinsky@gmail.com> wrote:
Hi Balazs,

I totally agree with you. New log management concept I am going to produce shortly, I just wanted this od config to do the job till I will not migrate it to new solution.

So, in new solution, what kind of transport should I consider - TCP ? From source to log processor and then to SIEM ?
I don't want to use DNS, I want to keep hostnames, encryption is not required - maybe I would consider it in log processor to SIEM traffic.

Thanks.

Denis

2016-09-29 17:38 GMT+02:00 Scheidler, Balázs <balazs.scheidler@balabit.com>:

Source spoofing is the remnant of a world where devices didn't have tcp based logging, and were broken enough not to recognise the source hostname out of a syslog message.

The world us supposed to have changed and I would drop spoof source any time if it weren't for backward compatibility.

Using spoof source and hence UDP is not a good way to deploy a serious log management system in 2016.


On Sep 29, 2016 09:09, "Denis Dolinský" <denis.dolinsky@gmail.com> wrote:
hi Sandor,

these are my global options:

#
# Global options.
#
options { chain_hostnames(yes); keep_hostname(yes); keep_timestamp(yes); flush_lines(0); perm(0640); stats_freq(3600); };

so spoof source is not necessary here ?

Thanks.

Denis

2016-09-29 9:49 GMT+02:00 Sandor Geller <sandor.geller@ericsson.com>:
Hi,

Source spoofing fakes the source IP address of the outgoing packets, as
this can't work with connection-oriented protocols it is usable only
with UDP datagrams.

Actually source spoofing isn't needed in most cases and won't even work
when spoofing protection is enabled in firewalls / routers and not all
hosts are on the same subnet.

Take a look at keep-hostname() and chain-hostnames()

Regards,

Sandor

On 09/29/2016 09:29 AM, Denis Dolinský wrote:
> Hi,
>
> yes, I need spoof_source to be enabled for source identification ...
>
> Denis
>
> 2016-09-28 16:44 GMT+02:00 Szalai, Attila
> <Attila.Szalai@morganstanley.com <mailto:Attila.Szalai@morganstanley.com>>:
>
>     Just a quick note.____
>
>     The warning message about the binding issue caused by the
>     spoof_source option. Is that option necessary?____
>
>     __ __
>
>     *From:*syslog-ng-bounces@lists.balabit.hu
>     <mailto:syslog-ng-bounces@lists.balabit.hu>
>     [mailto:syslog-ng-bounces@lists.balabit.hu
>     <mailto:syslog-ng-bounces@lists.balabit.hu>] *On Behalf Of *Denis
>     Dolinský
>     *Sent:* Wednesday, September 28, 2016 3:47 PM
>
>
>     *To:* Syslog-ng users' and developers' mailing list
>     *Subject:* Re: [syslog-ng] syslog-ng forwarding and processing issue____
>
>     __ __
>
>     hi guys,____
>
>     __ __
>
>     this is stats:____
>
>     __ __
>
>     destination;d_net_udp514;;a;processed;13
>     source;s_net_udp514;;a;processed;3
>     dst.syslog;d_net_udp514#0;udp,192.168.3.1:514;a;dropped;0
>     dst.syslog;d_net_udp514#0;udp,192.168.3.1:514;a;processed;10
>     dst.syslog;d_net_udp514#0;udp,192.168.3.1:514;a;stored;0____
>
>     __ __
>
>     from debug:____
>
>     __ __
>
>     Incoming log entry; source='s_net_udp514#0',
>     line='<78> remote_server /usr/sbin/cron[24934]:
>     Can't bind hostname for the IP address, therefore using IP address
>     as hostname; IP address='192.168.2.1'____
>
>     __ __
>
>     Do you see anything what I do not do ?____
>
>     __ __
>
>     Thanks.____
>
>     __ __
>
>     Denis____
>
>     __ __
>
>     2016-09-28 14:02 GMT+02:00 Szalai, Attila
>     <Attila.Szalai@morganstanley.com
>     <mailto:Attila.Szalai@morganstanley.com>>:____
>
>     Hi,____
>
>      ____
>
>     In case of udp, the syslog source should handle receiving logs with
>     old and the new version too. (But that is more an exception than the
>     rule, so matching the receiver and the sender is a good idea
>     generaly.)____
>
>      ____
>
>     Before anything else I would check if the logs arrive to the
>     anonymizer host or not. The statistics can help on this. Also, if
>     there are parsing issue, the syslog-ng would tell this through its
>     log.____
>
>      ____
>
>     After that starting the syslog-ng with enabled debug logs can also
>     help on discovering what happening with the received log.____
>
>      ____
>
>     *From:*syslog-ng-bounces@lists.balabit.hu
>     <mailto:syslog-ng-bounces@lists.balabit.hu>
>     [mailto:syslog-ng-bounces@lists.balabit.hu
>     <mailto:syslog-ng-bounces@lists.balabit.hu>] *On Behalf Of *Fekete,
>     Róbert
>     *Sent:* Wednesday, September 28, 2016 1:47 PM
>     *To:* Syslog-ng users' and developers' mailing list
>     *Subject:* Re: [syslog-ng] syslog-ng forwarding and processing issue____
>
>      ____
>
>     Hi, ____
>
>      ____
>
>     The destination on your remote server and the source on the
>     pseudomizer host do not match: the first one uses the udp() driver
>     (RFC3164 protocol), while the second uses the syslog() driver
>     (RFC5424) protocol. ____
>
>      ____
>
>     Change the destination driver to syslog() on the remote server. (For
>     more possibilities, see
>     https://www.balabit.com/documents/syslog-ng-pe-latest-guides/en/syslog-ng-pe-guide-admin/html/concepts-things-to-consider.html
>     <https://www.balabit.com/documents/syslog-ng-pe-latest-guides/en/syslog-ng-pe-guide-admin/html/concepts-things-to-consider.html> )____
>
>      ____
>
>     HTH____
>
>      ____
>
>     Robert____
>
>      ____
>
>     On Wed, Sep 28, 2016 at 1:17 PM, Denis Dolinský
>     <denis.dolinsky@gmail.com <mailto:denis.dolinsky@gmail.com>> wrote:____
>
>     Hi guys,____
>
>     I have following setup in place:____
>
>     remote server - 192.168.1.10____
>
>     pseudomizer - syslog-ng PE in client mode - 192.168.2.10____
>
>     SIEM - 192.168.3.10____
>
>     So I am sending syslog logs from remote server to pseudomizer:____
>
>     source src { internal()};____
>
>     destination dst { udp ("192.168.2.10) port (514);};____
>
>     log { source(src); destination (dst);____
>
>     this is very old config from syslog v4____
>
>     Then on pseudomizer - syslog-ng LTS 6.0.1 PE, I am collecting the
>     logs, processing them - removing private data, putting pseudonyms
>     instead and forwarding them to SIEM.
>
>     source s_net_udp514 {
>         syslog(
>             ip(192.168.2.10)
>             ip-protocol(4)
>             transport("udp")
>             so_rcvbuf(2097152)
>             );
>     };
>
>     source src {
>             internal();
>             unix-dgram("/dev/log");
>             system ();
>     };
>
>     destination d_net_udp514 {
>              syslog (
>              "192.168.3.10"
>              port(514)
>              transport(udp)
>              spoof_source(yes)
>              mark_mode(periodical));};
>     rewrite r_rewrite {
>     subst("admin", "pseudonym000001", value("MESSAGE"), flags("global"));
>
>     log {
>             source(s_net_udp514); source (src);
>             rewrite(r_rewrite); # do the pseudomizing
>             destination(d_net_udp514);
>     };____
>
>     On SIEM device, I can see only pseudomizer internal logs (src), not
>     processed logs from remote server.____
>
>     Any advice ?____
>
>     Many thanks.____
>
>     Denis____
>
>
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