I have a new syslog server (freeware) and I work for a large (new) department of state government that broke off from a previous department.
Because all the infrastructure still resides in the old department (including DNS), and for other security reasons by which we don't put our firewalls into DNS anyway, I can't/don't want to use DNS to resolve the IP address from the two clustered Cisco ASA firewalls I manage. Furthermore, our firewalls are located in a different data center than where the old infrastructure resides. That means that if the connection goes down, I don't have any logs. As a result, I've added a evaluation syslog server locally in the other data center.
Everything works, but I didn't want to see the date/time etc. two times in the display so I turned off embedded date & time. But this also turned off the hostname that comes from Cisco.
So the only question left is: Is there any way to manually map a hostname to an IP address so that the hostname appears in that column (instead of just the IP address)?
If it only works via DNS, then this turns into an enhancement request.
Also, if it doesn't work like I'd like it to, can I map it in the (c:\windows\system32\drivers\) hosts file and have it work through that?
Thanks...
ArchiTech89