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putofad

Reputation: 31

rsyslog to send ip address rather than hostname

I already setup centralized logging system on my environment but i keep getting hostname from the client rather than ip address is there a way to receive or send ip instead of hostname?

thanks

Upvotes: 1

Views: 9285

Answers (1)

Rumbles
Rumbles

Reputation: 1393

You would need to define a template on both your remote and central server which uses fromhost-ip instead of fromhost or hostname. This way you will transmit the message with the IP in the message and you will save that information on your central server.

I don't know of any standard templates that use IP address over hostname, as normally a hostname is of more use than an IP address

More info on properties can be found here and templates here

Upvotes: 2

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