To David’s point it is a trivial process to replace/upgrade the RHEL default version of rsyslog with the packages maintained in the Addison repository, and folks should not be afraid of doing so as the RHEL versions can be notoriously out of date.
> On Mar 19, 2024, at 09:43, David Lang via rsyslog <rsyslog@lists.adiscon.com> > wrote: > > if Redhat does not provide you with the pmciscoios module, then you need to > upgrade to a version that the community supports install that package from > the community repo. > > see https://www.rsyslog.com/rhelcentos-rpms/ for instructions. > > David Lang > > P.S. this list is very much still alive and the primary way to get support > from the community. > > On Tue, 19 Mar 2024, Roy White via rsyslog wrote: > >> Good Morning, >> >> I am hopeful this mailing list is still monitored, and that this is not >> falling onto deaf ears. I am currently trying to implement an Rsyslog Remote >> Server to consolidate the logs of all of our Cisco switches. The server is >> collecting the data, however because of the format of the Cisco IOS logs, it >> is not properly parsing and recognizing the host and source of the remote >> logs. Rsyslog is prepending a its own IP address, and timestamp, and making >> the data difficult more difficult to read. I have dug through the >> documentation and found that there is a module called pmciscoios that is >> supposed to aide in fixing this issue. Unfortunately, I am currently running >> rsyslogd 8.2102.0-7.el8_6.1 (aka 2021.02), on RHEL 8.6 and the pmciscoios >> module is missing. Through further research I was able to find the >> pmciscoios.c file through GITHUB but was unable to figure out how to convert >> it to a .so format in order to add it to /lib64/rsyslog and have it read >> properly. Has anyone dealt with this > is >> sue previously, and do you have any suggestions for how I might be able to >> fix this? I would be very grateful for any assistance or feedback. Thank you >> in advance! >> >> Very Respectfully, >> >> >> Roy White, MBA >> >> SysOps Project Manager, Information Technology >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> rsyslog mailing list >> https://lists.adiscon.net/mailman/listinfo/rsyslog >> http://www.rsyslog.com/professional-services/ >> What's up with rsyslog? Follow https://twitter.com/rgerhards >> NOTE WELL: This is a PUBLIC mailing list, posts are ARCHIVED by a myriad of >> sites beyond our control. PLEASE UNSUBSCRIBE and DO NOT POST if you DON'T >> LIKE THAT. >> > _______________________________________________ > rsyslog mailing list > https://lists.adiscon.net/mailman/listinfo/rsyslog > http://www.rsyslog.com/professional-services/ > What's up with rsyslog? Follow https://twitter.com/rgerhards > NOTE WELL: This is a PUBLIC mailing list, posts are ARCHIVED by a myriad of > sites beyond our control. PLEASE UNSUBSCRIBE and DO NOT POST if you DON'T > LIKE THAT. _______________________________________________ rsyslog mailing list https://lists.adiscon.net/mailman/listinfo/rsyslog http://www.rsyslog.com/professional-services/ What's up with rsyslog? Follow https://twitter.com/rgerhards NOTE WELL: This is a PUBLIC mailing list, posts are ARCHIVED by a myriad of sites beyond our control. PLEASE UNSUBSCRIBE and DO NOT POST if you DON'T LIKE THAT.