Re: [syslog-ng] Syslog-ng setup for both RFC3164 and RFC5124

27 Feb 2019

      Hi Carlan,
If it helps, here’s what some of our users use for receiving on a local host and forwarding out to a docker container on that same host.
Also, I’m curious about “identical issue with cisco traffic, since it's not RFC compliant” – why do you say that?
(well, I agree that some of their stuff isn’t, but routers, switches and firewalls are as far as I know)

# Local forwarding to LogZilla NEO containers
# Generated on Thu Jan  3 17:49:27 UTC 2019
options {
    chain_hostnames(off);
    flush_lines(10000);
    threaded(yes);
    use_dns(yes); # This should be set to no in high scale environments
    use_fqdn(no);
    keep_hostname(yes);
    dns-cache-size(2000);
    dns-cache-expire(87600);
    use-dns(persist_only);
    dns-cache-hosts(/etc/hosts);
    owner("root");
    group("root");
    perm(0640);
    stats_freq(0);
    time_reopen(5);
};

source s_local {
    system();
    internal();
};

source s_rfc3164 {
    network(
      transport("tcp")
      port(514)
      log-iw-size(20000)
     );

    network(
      transport("udp")
      so_rcvbuf(1048576)
      flags("no-multi-line")
      port(514)
    );
};

source s_rfc5424 {
    network(
      transport("tcp")
      flags(syslog-protocol)
      port(601)
    );
};

destination d_rfc3164 {
   tcp("localhost" port(32514));
};
destination d_rfc5424 {
   tcp("localhost" port(32601));
};

log {
   source(s_rfc3164);
   destination(d_rfc3164);
};
log {
   source(s_rfc5424);
   destination(d_rfc5424);
};

From: syslog-ng <syslog-ng-bounces@lists.balabit.hu> on behalf of Carlan Philippe <philrmls@yahoo.fr>
Reply-To: Syslog-ng users' and developers' mailing list <syslog-ng@lists.balabit.hu>
Date: Saturday, February 23, 2019 at 8:09 PM
To: Syslog-ng users' and developers' mailing list <syslog-ng@lists.balabit.hu>
Subject: [syslog-ng] Syslog-ng setup for both RFC3164 and RFC5124

Hi all,

Is there a way to configure syslog-ng to process properly both RFC3164 and RFC5124 on the same listening port ?

The scenario is a bunch of devices sending traffic to one  syslog server port (both udp + tcp) with the senders typically not knowing what protocol they are sending.

We are running syslog-ng 3.13 with this setup:

source s_syslog { udp(ip(0.0.0.0) port(514)) ;
                             tcp(ip(0.0.0.0)  port(514)); }

 If needed we could upgrade syslog-ng to 3.19.1 but having checked the doc for 3.19, it seems that the solution would be to create 2 source entries, 1 for RFC3164 with network() and 1 for RFC5124 with  syslog().  Neverthless, these 2 sources would have to listen on *different* ports and that is the problem for us.

Note that we also have an identical issue with cisco traffic, since it's not RFC compliant, syslog-ng adds automatically a header with  timestamp and hostname.

Thank you.

Re: [syslog-ng] Syslog-ng setup for both RFC3164 and RFC5124

Clayton Dukes