How to include the hostname in the syslog output for RSA Authentication Manager 8.x
Originally Published: 2013-10-04
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Applies To
RSA Product/Service Type: Authentication Manager
RSA Version/Condition: 8.x
Issue
Cause
Resolution
- Make a backup of the file /etc/syslog-ng/syslog-ng.conf.
cp /etc/syslog-ng/syslog-ng.conf./etc/syslog-ng/syslog-ng.conf.bk
- Open the syslog-ng.conf.in a text editor, such as vi.
- Edit /etc/syslog-ng/syslog-ng.conf, changing
udp(ip("127.0.0.1") port(514));
to
udp(ip("x.x.x.x") port(514));
where, x.x.x.x is the IP address of the Authentication Manager server. With the IP address the command is udp(ip("192.168.2.50") port(514));
- Restart the syslog daemon:
/etc/init.d/syslog restart
- Configure Authentication Manager to forward syslog events.
- In the Security Console, navigate to Setup > System Settings > Logging.
- Select the primary server and click Next.
- Change the logging settings to Save to internal database and remote SysLog at the following hostname or IP address.
- Put the Authentication Manager's IP using in step 3 above into the field for the server to log to.
- Now all events logged to syslog will have the server's short hostname. By default with syslog the hostname is to the right of the date and timestamp.
Example RSA log entry:
Oct 4 09:32:18 am8p 2013-10-04 09:32:18,534, , audit.runtime.com.rsa.ims.session.impl.SessionManagerImpl, INFO, b51d194d3202a8c01a734ebc86e27d5c,f375d7e63202a8c00822bc73cb5c8122,,192.168.2.50, AUTHN_LOGOUT_EVENT,13001,SUCCESS,,cd4fa0343202a8c01b4a7edfce034bf7-vYx1cUR3CIFY,000000000000000000001000d0021000, 000000000000000000001000d0011000,000000000000000000001000e0011000,admin,Admin,Admin,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,
Example non-RSA entry:
Oct 4 09:20:25 am8p sshd[5389]: Server listening on 0.0.0.0 port 22.
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