[syslog-ng] hostname not appearing correctly when receiving logs from switches

[Clayton Dukes]

Interesting! We’ve been getting a lot of support tickets for this very problem.
I can easily recreate the issue.

Balabit Team: is this a new bug?



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From: syslog-ng <syslog-ng-bounces at lists.balabit.hu> on behalf of Joshua <aces621 at yahoo.com>
Reply-To: Joshua <aces621 at yahoo.com>, Syslog-ng users' and developers' mailing list <syslog-ng at lists.balabit.hu>
Date: Monday, April 30, 2018 at 7:09 PM
To: "syslog-ng at lists.balabit.hu" <syslog-ng at lists.balabit.hu>
Subject: [Suspected Spam] [syslog-ng] hostname not appearing correctly when receiving logs from switches

Hi All,

I am pretty new to syslog-ng but do have some basic knowledge. I have deployed syslog-ng v3.14 on a newly deployed Linux server because syslog-ng v3.5 is working very well on another syslog server.

On this new deployment, the syslogs received from most of the servers are able to show IP/host, however, the syslogs from our switches contains IP/host showing as ":" (colons). I copied the current working custom build .conf from another syslog server into our new server. Can someone help me figure out what I am missing? It is working for some components but not for switches. I tested the same switch by sending syslog to another syslog server and the hostname is appearing but just not appearing on the new syslog server. The only difference between the two server is that one uses v3.5 (the working one) and the other uses syslog-ng v3.14.

I have set: "keep_hostname (yes)" but it still doesn't work.

Can someone please help? Am I missing something here?

Thanks
Joshua Lai
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