Reliable Delivery for Syslog

By Rose, M.

Book Id: WPLBN0000693432
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Reproduction Date: 2005

Title:	Reliable Delivery for Syslog
Author:	Rose, M.
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Language:	English
Subject:	Sociolinguistics, Engineering, Language
Collections:	Technical eBooks and Manuals Collection, Technical eBooks Collection
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Citation APA MLA Chicago Rose, B. M. (n.d.). Reliable Delivery for Syslog. Retrieved from http://gutenberg.cc/

Description
Technical Reference Publication

Excerpt
Introduction: The syslog protocol [1] presents a spectrum of service options for provisioning an event-based logging service over a network. Each option has associated benefits and costs. Accordingly, the choice as to what combination of options is provisioned is both an engineering and administrative decision. This memo describes how to realize the syslog protocol when reliable delivery is selected as a required service. It is beyond the scope of this memo to argue for, or against, the use of reliable delivery for the syslog protocol.

Table of Contents
Table of Contents 1. Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 2. The Model . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 3. The RAW Profile . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 3.1 RAW Profile Overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 3.2 RAW Profile Identification and Initialization . . . . . . . 9 3.3 RAW Profile Message Syntax . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10 3.4 RAW Profile Message Semantics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10 4. The COOKED Profile . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11 4.1 COOKED Profile Overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11 4.2 COOKED Profile Identification and Initialization . . . . . . 11 4.3 COOKED Profile Message Syntax . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11 4.4 COOKED Profile Message Semantics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12 4.4.1 The IAM Element . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12 4.4.2 The ENTRY Element . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14 4.4.3 The PATH Element . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19 5. Additional Provisioning . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25 5.1 Message Authenticity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25 5.2 Message Replay . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25 5.3 Message Integrity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25 5.4 Message Observation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26 5.5 Summary of Recommended Practices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26 6. Initial Registrations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27 6.1 Registration: The RAW Profile . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27 6.2 Registration: The COOKED Profile . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27 7. The syslog DTD . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28 8. Reply Codes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32 9. IANA Considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33 9.1 Registration: BEEP Profiles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33 9.2 Registration: The System (Well-Known) TCP port number for syslog-conn . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33 10. Security Considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34 11. Acknowledgements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34 12. References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34 Authors' Addresses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35 Full Copyright Statement . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36