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Jeff_Morrison_4
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Apr 05, 2006

Logging to syslog from iRule

I am wanting to send HTTP information to my syslog-ng server. I have tried to add logging to my iRule but I don't see any information being sent to the Local0 files on the F5.     I would appre...
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Colin_Walker_12
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Apr 05, 2006
Ahh.

 

 

For the log command to function properly, you have to tell it what you want to log, not just tell it to log.

 

 

So for instance, if you changed your log line to:

 

 


log local0. "Redirection to Error page"

 

 

Then you'd be able to see that message in your log file every time the rule processed that section of the code.

 

 

HTH,

 

-Colin