Last Modified: Jul 23, 2021
Affected Product:
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BIG-IP TMOS
Known Affected Versions:
14.0.0, 14.0.0.1, 14.0.0.2, 14.0.0.3, 14.0.0.4, 14.0.0.5, 14.0.1, 14.0.1.1, 14.1.0, 14.1.0.1, 14.1.0.2, 14.1.0.3, 14.1.0.5, 14.1.0.6, 14.1.2, 14.1.2.1, 14.1.2.2, 14.1.2.3, 14.1.2.4, 14.1.2.5, 14.1.2.6, 14.1.2.7, 14.1.2.8, 14.1.3, 14.1.3.1, 14.1.4, 14.1.4.1, 14.1.4.2, 14.1.4.3, 15.0.0, 15.0.1, 15.0.1.1, 15.0.1.2, 15.0.1.3, 15.0.1.4, 15.1.0, 15.1.0.1, 15.1.0.2, 15.1.0.3, 15.1.0.4, 15.1.0.5, 15.1.1, 15.1.2, 15.1.2.1, 15.1.3, 15.1.3.1, 16.0.0, 16.0.0.1, 16.0.1, 16.0.1.1, 16.0.1.2, 16.1.0
Opened: Mar 02, 2021
Severity: 3-Major
Messages that are logged to journald use the configured hostname, while sylog-ng uses the hostname (machine name) and truncates it starting at the first '.' (period). This results in hostnames being inconsistent when it contains '.'; e.g., 'my.hostname' is logged as 'my' by syslog-ng, and 'my.hostname' by journald. This can make it difficult for log analysis tools to work with the log files.
The full hostname is logged for system logs while logs that go directly to syslog-ng use a truncated hostname.
-- Hostname contains a period -- Viewing log files emitted from journald and from syslog-ng
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