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fillstrsoh_2962
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Dec 12, 2008

tmm entries for syslog

When tmm logs to our remote syslog-ng servers but the entries show up as coming from tmm instead of the IP/hostname of the actual system. Since we have multiple Big-IPs the tmm entries from multiple m...
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fillstrsoh_2962
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Dec 12, 2008
Aaron,

 

 

Does syslog-ng get the host portion of this information "Dec 11 04:39:56 tmm tmm" from /etc/hosts? If so would it be possible to modify /etc/hosts so that [127.1.1.2 tmm] would also have the system name as such [127.1.1.2 tmm silver.strsoh.org] so that the output would look like this "Dec 11 04:39:56 silver tmm"?

 

 

Also there is an interesting post that describes new features in syslog-ng version 3 that will do exactly what I need.

 

 

http://bazsi.blogs.balabit.com/2008_11_01_archive.html

 

 

Thanks for the information you provided.

 

 

Mark