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Nov 19, 2014

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I am pretty knew to the F5 BIG-IP world. I am looking to create an iRule that will send syslog messages to my SIEM. According to my SIEM vendor I need these events in the NIDS format. I am currently ...

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Nov 19, 2014

You don't need an iRule to perform remote syslog and if you want to perform high-speed logging (HSL) of requests then use a request logging profile.

What HSL within iRules gives you is specific formats and contents of logs.

https://support.f5.com/kb/en-us/products/big-ip_ltm/manuals/product/bigip-external-monitoring-implementations-11-3-0.html

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