ID: 7085
Title: Fixed parsing of special syslog messages which don't contain a host name
Component: Event Console
Level: 1
Class: Bug fix
Version: 1.6.0i1
The Event Console is now able to process syslog messages that don't contain the
host name field. An example for such a message is this one:
C+:
Feb 13 08:41:07 pfsp: The configuration was changed on leader blatldc1-xxx to version
1.1366 by blatldc1-xxx/admin at 2019-02-13 09:41:02 CET</tt>
C-:
In previous versions messages like this resulted in log messages like this in
the event console log (var/log/mkeventd.log):
C+:
2019-02-13 09:41:07,338 [40] [cmk.mkeventd.EventServer] Got non-syslog message "Feb
13 08:41:07 pfsp: The configuration was changed on leader blatldc1-xxx to version 1.1366
by blatldc1-xxx/admin at 2019-02-13 09:41:02 CET" (need more than 1 value to unpack)
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/omd/sites/ggmcmpp1/lib/python/cmk/ec/main.py", line 2916, in
create_event_from_line
event.update(self.parse_syslog_info(rest))
File "/omd/sites/ggmcmpp1/lib/python/cmk/ec/main.py", line 2667, in
parse_syslog_info
tag, message = line.split(": ", 1)
ValueError: need more than 1 value to unpack
2019-02-13 09:41:07,338 [20] [cmk.mkeventd.EventServer] Parsed message:
application:
core_host:
facility: 1
host:
host_in_downtime: False
ipaddress: 1.23.45.67
pid: 0
priority: 0
text: Feb 13 08:41:07 pfsp: The configuration was changed on leader blatldc1-xxx
to version 1.1366 by blatldc1-xxx/admin at 2019-02-13 09:41
:02 CET
time: 1550047267.34
C-:
A fallback event was created that had no syslog fields set and contained the
whole unparsed syslog message in the text field. If you have EC rules matching
on this fallback event, you will have to change these rules to match the parsed
event fields.
Now that the parsing has been added, events created by such a syslog message now
have the fields set as follows for our example:
C+:
application: pfsp
core_host:
facility: 1
host: 127.0.0.1
host_in_downtime: False
ipaddress: 127.0.0.1'
pid: 0
priority: 5
text: The configuration was changed on leader blatldc1-xxx to version 1.1366 by
blatldc1-xxx/admin at 2019-02-13 09:41:02 CET
time: 1550043667.0
C-:
Please note that the EC uses the sender IP addresse of the syslog message to populate the
host field.