On Tue, 15 Nov 2022, Redbourne,Michael wrote:

Concerning the /proc and pstats. There is /proc/net/netstat, which looks 
something like this after a couple minutes of logs:
Udp:
   5820820 packets received
   1504 packets to unknown port received.
   798900 packet receive errors
   3338814 packets sent
   798900 receive buffer errors
   0 send buffer errors

I have doubled the values in net.ipv4.udp_mem.

The intent behind the queue $ActionQueue* legacy directives was spawning 
additional worker threads when the queue became abnormally large. I've tried 
various settings assigned to it, high worker threads, low messages, and vice 
versa. Would it be beneficial (and possible) to move those legacy directives to 
/etc/rsyslog.d/security-confiig-omsagent.conf? That is where most of the load 
is going to be. (Though with less extreme settings).

why do you need a queue for writing to /var/log/secure? omfile is fast enough that the locking needed for a queue (let alone multiple threads writing to the same file) will only slow things down)

The ereregex filters are set to remove information from being forwarded to Sentinel, in most cases, large swaths of IP subnet ranges that are irrelevant for monitoring purpose. They mostly target /16s, /22s and /24s. I could change this to (pseudo):

If fromhost-ip contains "<Sending Device>" and $rawmsg contains "<subnet>" stop

Example Checkpoint Log:
CEF:0|Check Point|SmartDefense|Check Point|IPS|SQL Servers MSSQL Vendor-specific SQL 
Injection|Very-High| eventId=882492844392 msg=Application Intelligence mrt=1599552618944 
in=-2147483648 out=-2147483648 customerURI=XXXX catdt=Firewall severity=0 priority=8 
deviceSeverity=Very-High rt=1599552617058 deviceDirection=0 shost=XXXX src=<src_ip_addr> 
sourceZoneURI=XXXX sourceGeoCountryCode=XXXX sourceGeoRegionCode=XXXX 
cs2=asm_dynamic_prop_SQL_FINGERPRINT_A cs3=IPS cs4=SQL Servers MSSQL Vendor-specific SQL 
Injection flexString2=SQL Servers MSSQL Vendor-specific SQL Injection flexNumber1=5 flexNumber2=3 
locality=1 amac=<mac_addr> dvc=<dvc_ip_addr>

write the log out as RSYSLOG_DebugFormat and look to see if you can do something other than 'contains'. 'startswith' takes far less processing time.

if you have messages in a known format, using mmnormalize to parse the logs and then make your tests check the parsed variable instead of having a lot of 'contains' tests that each have to scan the entire message

That should help it cut down on the unnecessary checking of logs. Otherwise, it 
gets applied to every log inbound, not just the ones from the firewall assets.

if..then tests can be nested so that you don't run every test on every log

Checking for CEF: is not something I could easily remove. It controls event ingestion and separation from other log source types in Microsoft's system. I'll remove the ASA section though, it's not necessary for this collector. I can probably move the Infoblox setting to a syslog tag by source ip.

the problem isn't checking for CEF/ASA, it's that you are doing so via 'contains'

David Lang


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From: rsyslog <rsyslog-boun...@lists.adiscon.com> On Behalf Of Rainer Gerhards 
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To: David Lang <da...@lang.hm>
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Subject: Re: [rsyslog] rsyslog Performance Tuning - Dropped UDP Events

Just wanted to make sure awareness of that option. Agree that it is not often 
needed.

Rainer

El mar, 15 nov 2022 a las 10:02, David Lang (<da...@lang.hm>) escribió:

I haven't needed to do that to handle 300k messages/sec on UDP input
(usually I run into bottlenecks in processing the messages long before
I have problems accepting them)

David Lang

On Tue, 15 Nov 2022, Rainer Gerhards wrote:

let me add: look into setting imudp to realtime priority. Doc:

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Rainer

El mar, 15 nov 2022 a las 5:04, David Lang via rsyslog
(<rsyslog@lists.adiscon.com>) escribió:

Some additional comments on the config



These action queue configs probably don't do what you intend them
to do

the first thing is that they only affect the next action, which is
authpriv.* to /var/log/secure and you configure 2000 threads to
write these logs out. That will create a HUGE amount of contention
for the queue lock and under load you should see it maxing out
quite quickly

what is it that you are attempting to do here?



# Performance Tuning #
$ActionQueueWorkerThreads 2000
$ActionQueueWorkerThreadMinimumMessages 1000 $ActionQueueSize
1000000 $ActionQueueDiscardMark 800000 $ActionQueueHighWaterMark
600000

#### RULES ####
# Log all kernel messages to the console.
# Logging much else clutters up the screen.
#kern.*                                                 /dev/console

# Log anything (except mail authpriv, cron) # Dont log private
authentication messages!
#*.*;mail.none;authpriv.none;cron.none                   ?RemoteIP

# The authpriv file has restricted access.
authpriv.*                                              /var/log/secure


since the queue only applied to the next action with this config,
everything below this is operating from the main queue again as if
there was no action queue configuration




# Log all the mail messages in one place.
mail.*                                                  -/var/log/maillog

# Log cron stuff
cron.*                                                  /var/log/cron

# Everybody gets emergency messages
*.emerg                                                 :omusrmsg:*

# Save news errors of level crit and higher in a special file.
uucp,news.crit                                          /var/log/spooler

# Save boot messages also to boot.log
# local7.*                                              /var/syslog/boot.log



ereregex is a fairly expensive filter to apply, it's much better to
figure out a non-regex approach to filtering these. Can you post
some examples of what you are trying to filter? mmnormalize to
parse the logs and then make decisions on the parsed results id probably much 
faster.


/etc/rsyslog.d/security-config-omsagent.conf
# [Firewall Log Filtering] #
:msg, ereregex, "(1.1.[0-9]+.[0-9]+)" stop :msg, ereregex,
"(1.2.[0-9]+.[0-9]+)" stop :msg, ereregex, "(1.3.[0-9]+.[0-9]+)"
stop :msg, ereregex, "(1.4.[0-9]+.[0-9]+)" stop :msg, ereregex,
"(1.5.[0-9]+.[0-9]+)" stop :msg, ereregex, "(1.6.1[6-9].[0-9]+)"
stop :msg, ereregex, "(1.7.2[0-3].[0-9]+)" stop :msg, ereregex,
"(1.8.68.[0-9]+)" stop :msg, ereregex, "(1.9.69.[0-9]+)" stop :msg,
ereregex, "(1.10.82.[0-9]+)" stop :msg, ereregex, "(IP multicast
routing failed)" stop :msg, ereregex, "(TCP_7680)" stop


check the messages to see where CEF: and ASA- are in the message,
can you filter on something smaller than rawmsg? (say syslogtag), and can you 
use 'startswith'
instead of 'contains'?, again mmnormalize may be much faster

if $rawmsg contains "CEF:" or $rawmsg contains "ASA-" then
@@127.0.0.1:25226 & stop if $rawmsg contains "infobloxgridmstr"
then @127.0.0.1:25224 & stop


combining multiple filters into one action, or having the filters
call a ruleset can be far more efficient than all of them writing things out 
independently.

the if..then filter structure lets you easily combine filters

local0.info @127.0.0.1:25224
& stop
local1.info @127.0.0.1:25224
& stop
local2.info @127.0.0.1:25224
& stop
local3.info @127.0.0.1:25224
& stop
local4.info @127.0.0.1:25224
& stop
local5.info @127.0.0.1:25224
& stop
local6.info @127.0.0.1:25224
& stop
local7.info @127.0.0.1:25224
& stop
auth.* @127.0.0.1:25224
& stop
authpriv.* @127.0.0.1:25224
& stop
daemon.info @127.0.0.1:25224
& stop
syslog.* @127.0.0.1:25224
& stop
ftp.*<ftp://ftp.*> @127.0.0.1:25224 & stop
user.* @127.0.0.1:25224
& stop
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