Mar 27, 2026 - For details about updated CVE-2025-53521 (BIG-IP APM vulnerability), refer to K000156741.

BIG-IP to Process TLS Syslog Traffic

I have had a couple of customers ask about guidance on how to use their BIG IP to ingest external TLS syslog being shipped to them. Like them, I first came to DevCentral and found myself seeing the q...
Published Dec 03, 2020
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May 21, 2023

Hi Chad_Wise, 

Thank you very much, I have managed to make it work.

Unfortunatelly it looks like I can convert syslog from TCP to UDP only when using TLS. If I try to configure the vServer without a SSL profile, I get the following error:

"01070734:3: Configuration error: Less than the required minimum number of profiles found on /Common/syslog_tcp: At least 1 of but Not more than 3 of (SIP Profile, ClientSSL Profile, ServerSSL Profile, QUIC Profile)"