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rafaelbn
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Sep 29, 2020

BIG-IP send all syslog messages as local5 facility

Hello Devs! Our client wants every syslog message sent by the BIG-IP to be on local5 facility. I understand that this is not the behavior of syslog-ng. But is it possible? I tinkered around the sy...
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rafaelbn
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Oct 22, 2020

Hey boneyard! How's it going my friend? Thank you for your reply.

 

I thought the same as you. I would have to tinker with the syslog-ng and I could very easily break something and I also advised our client against it.

 

They use some very old syslog solution and designed that way. For now I said that it would not be possible. Let's see if they upgrade that legacy solution to a better one.

 

Thanks for your time, Rafael.