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Cirrus

Dec 15, 2020

F5 not sending logs to syslog

All of sudden F5 stopped sending logs to syslog servers. Syslogs servers are reachable from F5 but all of sudden logs not reaching syslog. There was no change done w.r.t. to syslog. Last weekend, we ...

jaikumar_f5
Dec 15, 2020
Can you run the below 1st, see if there's any service running.
netstat -antp | grep syslog
If yes, have it captured in a file, then try restarting the syslog daemon,
bigstart restart syslog-ng
Again run the netstat to see if its showing anything. I suspect, after your reboot, either your syslog daemon may not have started or might taken a different route.

BK1

Cirrus

After daemon restart, I can see logs on syslog server now. Also I was able to see connection established with syslog server under /var/log/messages file. Both inputs will be helpful for me in future. Thank you

jaikumar_f5