[syslog-ng] syslog-ng 3.5

Rodney Bizzell hardworker30 at gmail.com
Thu Oct 11 13:45:57 UTC 2018


Ultimately I want to have syslog-ng running with ipvsadm so I send logs
from legacy system to my new k8s graylog that is running in production. So
I need to setup syslog-ng to talk to graylog.

On Thu, Oct 11, 2018 at 9:22 AM Szemere, László <
laszlo.szemere at oneidentity.com> wrote:

> Dear Rodney Bizzell,
>  sorry for the misunderstanding, now it is clear for us, that you
> anonymised your config. just a note: it is preferable to use different
> masking addresses for different original IP's. i.e.: I can not check this
> source: "udp(ip(0.0.0.0) port(514));"
>
>  Back to your problem. It is not clear for me what do you mean by "once changes
> are made syslog-ng is failing"
>  It is not starting up at all? Or just not forwarding logs to your Graylog
> server?
>
> Br,
> Laci
>
>
> On Thu, Oct 11, 2018 at 2:03 PM, Rodney Bizzell <hardworker30 at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> I just changed my information on my graylog box 0.0.0.0 isn't what I had
>> in there.  The way the config is did that look syntax correctly
>>
>> On Thu, Oct 11, 2018, 12:26 AM Péter, Kókai <peter.kokai at oneidentity.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Hello,
>>>
>>> If you starg syslogng with -Fe it might give you a clue.
>>> Also 0.0.0.0 is a no - routable address, so it is fine for source, not
>>> so much for destination, you should check out on which ip graylog
>>> listening, if it is 0.0.0.0 you could use the loopback device 120.0.0.1 (or
>>> other valid ip, but lo would be preferable).
>>>
>>> --
>>> Kokan
>>>
>>> On Wed, 10 Oct 2018, 10:57 pm Rodney Bizzell, <hardworker30 at gmail.com>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> I have install syslog-ng 3.5 and I am configuring it to send all logs
>>>> to Graylog but once changes are made syslog-ng is failing. I change the
>>>> address of graylog server to 0.0.0.0
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> @version:3.5
>>>> @include "scl.conf"
>>>>
>>>> # syslog-ng configuration file.
>>>> #
>>>> # This should behave pretty much like the original syslog on RedHat. But
>>>> # it could be configured a lot smarter.
>>>> #
>>>> # See syslog-ng(8) and syslog-ng.conf(5) for more information.
>>>> #
>>>> # Note: it also sources additional configuration files (*.conf)
>>>> #       located in /etc/syslog-ng/conf.d/
>>>>
>>>> options {
>>>>     flush_lines (0);
>>>>     time_reopen (10);
>>>>     log_fifo_size (1000);
>>>>     chain_hostnames (off);
>>>>     use_dns (no);
>>>>     use_fqdn (no);
>>>>     create_dirs (no);
>>>>     keep_hostname (yes);
>>>> };
>>>>
>>>> source s_sys {
>>>>     system();
>>>>     internal();
>>>>      udp(ip(0.0.0.0) port(514));
>>>> };
>>>>
>>>> source s_net {
>>>> udp(ip(0.0.0.0) port(514));
>>>> tcp(ip(0.0.0.0) port(514) max-connections(256));
>>>> };
>>>>
>>>> destination d_cons { file("/dev/console"); };
>>>> destination d_mesg { file("/var/log/messages"); };
>>>> destination d_auth { file("/var/log/secure"); };
>>>> destination d_mail { file("/var/log/maillog" flush_lines(10)); };
>>>> destination d_spol { file("/var/log/spooler"); };
>>>> destination d_boot { file("/var/log/boot.log"); };
>>>> destination d_cron { file("/var/log/cron"); };
>>>> destination d_kern { file("/var/log/kern"); };
>>>> destination d_mlal { usertty("*"); };
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> destination d_graylog {
>>>> tcp("0.0.0.0"
>>>> port (12201)
>>>> spoof_sources(yes)
>>>> );
>>>> };
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> filter f_kernel     { facility(kern); };
>>>> filter f_default    { level(info..emerg) and
>>>>                         not (facility(mail)
>>>>                         or facility(authpriv)
>>>>                         or facility(cron)); };
>>>> filter f_auth       { facility(authpriv); };
>>>> filter f_mail       { facility(mail); };
>>>> filter f_emergency  { level(emerg); };
>>>> filter f_news       { facility(uucp) or
>>>>                         (facility(news)
>>>>                         and level(crit..emerg)); };
>>>> filter f_boot   { facility(local7); };
>>>> filter f_cron   { facility(cron); };
>>>>
>>>> #log { source(s_sys); filter(f_kernel); destination(d_cons); };
>>>> log { source(s_sys); filter(f_kernel); destination(d_kern); };
>>>> log { source(s_sys); filter(f_default); destination(d_mesg); };
>>>> log { source(s_sys); filter(f_auth); destination(d_auth); };
>>>> log { source(s_sys); filter(f_mail); destination(d_mail); };
>>>> log { source(s_sys); filter(f_emergency); destination(d_mlal); };
>>>> log { source(s_sys); filter(f_news); destination(d_spol); };
>>>> log { source(s_sys); filter(f_boot); destination(d_boot); };
>>>> log { source(s_sys); filter(f_cron); destination(d_cron); };
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> log { source(s_net); destination(d_graylog); };
>>>> log { source(s_sys); filter(f_default); destination(d_graylog);};
>>>>
>>>> # Source additional configuration files (.conf extension only)
>>>> @include "/etc/syslog-ng/conf.d/*.conf"
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> # vim:ft=syslog-ng:ai:si:ts=4:sw=4:et:
>>>>
>>>>
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