I am hoping you can give me a hand with an issue that I am having. I have a number of servers in a DMZ that are logging to a central rsyslog server and then forwarding these messages to a KiwiSyslog server. Unfortunately when this happens all of the messages received by Kiwi are labelled with the hostname/ip of the rsyslog server and not their original source. I am unable to enable UDP Spoofing on the RSyslog server as the firewall will only allow traffic from this servers IP and not the spoofed addresses.
Take the following example:
InternalServer1 -> KiwiSyslogServer
-Kiwi is able to resolve the name of InternalServer1 and everything works fine.
DMZServer1 -> DMZRSyslogServer -> KiwiSyslogServer
-Kiwi is not able to resolve the name of DMZServer1 as the incoming messages are stamped with the IPAddress of the DMZRSyslogServer
I noticed in the help documents that there is the option to modify a message by processing it with a script. The example they give for "Fields.VarPeerAddress" is very similar to what we want to happen:
"Firewall device (192.168.1.1) ---> First syslog collector (192.168.1.2) ---> This syslog collector (192.168.1.3)
The Fields.VarPeerAddres value would be 192.168.1.1."
So would a script similar to the following work? Anyone have any experience with this?
"Function Main()
' Replace DMZServerIP with ActualSourceIP within the message hostname
Fields. = Replace(Fields., "123.123.123.123", Fields.VarPeerAddress)
' Return OK to tell syslog that the script ran correctly.
Main = "OK"
End Function"
Thanks,
Ryan