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System Identity - two part name?

Thu Jun 15, 2017 11:01 am

When specifying a system identity with a singe word, for example: router, it does not show up in remote syslogs. But when I type an identity that contains one space, example: Firstname Lastname the "Lastname" shows up in the remote syslog.

Is this a feature or a bug?

Example 1 from syslog-ng: identity is set to "Uto Logi":
Jun 15 10:54:53 192.168.10.10 Logi [uto_logi]: defconf assigned 192.168.88.219 to B4:82:FE:E5:93:7B

Example 2 from syslog-ng: identity set to "Uto":
Jun 15 10:55:55 192.168.10.10 [uto_logi]: defconf assigned 192.168.88.219 to B4:82:FE:E5:93:7B
 
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Re: System Identity - two part name?

Thu Jun 15, 2017 11:06 am

Are you sure that is the problem of Mikrotik ? Just asking ... no offence. You are showing logs from syslog-ng and maybe it is problem of syslog-ng.
Have you checked non Mikrotik devices with two-word names ?
 
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Re: System Identity - two part name?

Thu Jun 15, 2017 11:45 am

I use rsyslog and it works OK for me, both for single word and multi word names (all words are shown).
Did you use the BSD syslog option?
 
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Re: System Identity - two part name?

Thu Jun 15, 2017 11:50 am

You are right that it might be also the syslog-ng cutting out the first part of the name/identity. I'm unable to debug that.

When unchecking BSD option the indentity is not shown at all on syslog.
 
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Re: System Identity - two part name?

Thu Jun 15, 2017 12:00 pm

Try it with rsyslog, e.g. a Raspberry Pi, to see if that works...
 
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Re: System Identity - two part name?

Fri Jun 16, 2017 7:54 pm

Works for me with Syslog-NG out of the box, I'm sending traffic via IPv6 with BSD-Syslog option. It looks like this in my NMS:
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Re: System Identity - two part name?

Fri Jun 16, 2017 11:31 pm

Changed to rsyslog and now it's working fine. Sorry and thank you :)

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