Guys I'm trying to log to a loadbalanced VIP. It seems to work ok except that the loadbalancer uses SNAT so I loose my source IP. This means I cannot use dns or even the source ip to get the source host as all logs appear to come from the same source (the loadbalancer). This means I have no choice but to rely on the hostname field which works about 98% of the time but some stuff like Dell OpenManage skips the hostname field. So I'd get logs like this on host "cage" f.e. Aug 16 21:47:22 Server Administrator: Storage Service EventID: 2242 The Patrol Read has started.: Controller 0 (PERC 5/i Integrated) I fixed that by telling the syslog-ng client to force itself to figure out a proper hostname and now the log looks like this Aug 17 13:51:10 cage Administrator[]: Instrumentation Service EventID: 1000 Server Administrator starting I thought syslog-ng inserts the hostname but by the looks of it it simply replaces whatever is in the expected field with the hostname it has just figured out. As you can see it overwrote the entry "Server". No biggie in the above case but what if this field contained valuable information ? I'd loose that. Any way to squeeze in the hostname so to speak ? -- stucky