Modify Syslog source ip address

[LionLantech]

Hi all,

i have a procurve 5406 with syslog configuration(logging <server ip>) and some vlan/ip address configured.

This switch send syslog message with default vlan ip address(ie. 1.1.1.1) but i want it send syslog message with vlan 2 ip address(2.2.2.2).

I try to use 'ip source-interface syslog 2.2.2.2' command and reload the switch but it continue to send syslog message with the wrong ip address.

How can i modify syslog source address?

thank you.

[Vince-Whirlwind]

Does the command 

management-vlan 2

change anything?

[LionLantech]

No, it already sends packet from wrong source IP.

[Vince-Whirlwind]

In your network design - is this switch doing inter-VLAN routing, or is it used as a layer-2 switch?

[AbeAbe]

I tried it with

ip source-interface syslog vlan 10

and this changes the sourceip, but it doesn't change the IP inside the syslogmessage, aka messagetext.

"<134> Jun 1 08:07:54 10.0.0.51 03363 auth: AM1: User 'admin' logged out of SSH session from 10.0.0.1"

but sourceIP in the UDP-Packet: 10.0.1.51

if i don't use the ip Source-interface syslog command sourceIP and ip in the syslogmessage itself are the same.

hth

Abe

[Vince-Whirlwind]

I guess my question was really getting at this: if you're using VLAN10 for management, what are you using VLAN1 for?

Removing the VLAN1 address from the switch does what?

Generally, you might have an easy-going design where you use VLAN1 for management, or you have a proper management VLAN and don't use VLAN1 at all.

[LionLantech]

Vince-Whirlwind yes, this switch is a L3 core switch so i can't remove any vlan/ip address.

It doesn't have any management-vlan configured.

I need to modify the syslog source-ip also on the text-message because my syslog server show the wrong ip on the text-message and another software can't associate this syslog message with the correct ip address.

[Michael Patmon]

Hello.  This didn't work as I expected either so I did some digging.  Looks like we are grabbing the local stack address used to reach the syslog server IP and sticking that in the syslog message data.  The "ip source-interface syslog" command is changing the IP address that gets input into the IP packet header.  I'm not sure why the IP given in the syslog message isn't changed as well. 

This doesn't seem right to me but has behaved this way for some time.  I'm going to ping the SW team, will reply back with any findings.  But for now that's the way it appears to work, unfortunately...

[LionLantech]

Thank you Michael Patmon. I'm glad to hear that you tested the same situation. I will wait for feedback from SW team.

[LionLantech]

Hi all,

any news?

[Michael Patmon]

This change should be in the 16.03 release.  It took some convincing and was too late for the 16.02 release at the time...