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Richard_Jones
Nimbostratus
Jan 23, 2013Sideband connection only receives 933 bytes?
I've been working on an iRule to open a sideband connection to a web server to submit a username and password via a GET, then receive response data. Although, it seems that the data received is limi...
hoolio
Cirrostratus
Feb 05, 2013Hi Richard,
Logging locally via syslog-ng you're limited to ~1000 bytes. If you want to log longer messages, you can set up a remote syslog server and use HSL to send the messages remotely. HSL is a best practice to use if you're going to log high volumes of messages as well.
HSL:
https://devcentral.f5.com/wiki/iRules.hsl.ashx
log command limitation:
https://devcentral.f5.com/wiki/iRules.log.ashx
The syslog facility is limited to logging 1024 bytes per request. Longer strings will be truncated.
Aaron
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