On Mon, 2013-02-25 at 13:51 -0800, David Lang wrote:
> one problem you will have is that the text in the messages sometimes includes 
> commas.
> 
> how are you getting the logs to your program? could you just insert sed into 
> the 
> path? I don't know of a way to do this inside rsyslog without a small custom 
> module.

I could try to add a replace() function to RainerScript, that could
solve that need. A message modification module would of course probably
be the fastest way. I think something that today can already be done is
extract all fields and rewrite them via a template. Have a look at this
sample config here (it was for a different use case, but...):

http://git.adiscon.com/?p=rsyslog.git;a=blob;f=doc/confsamples/normalization.conf;h=7cfd92ef86964281cd3cea8ff89ac9111c5668be;hb=HEAD

HTH
Rainer
> 
> David Lang
> 
>   On Mon, 25 Feb 2013, Woodruff, Dan wrote:
> 
> > Date: Mon, 25 Feb 2013 21:48:02 +0000
> > From: "Woodruff, Dan" <[email protected]>
> > Reply-To: rsyslog-users <[email protected]>
> > To: rsyslog-users <[email protected]>
> > Subject: [rsyslog] Replace a character in a message with a different one
> > 
> > We use Snare to capture logs from Windows machines to rsyslog for archival 
> > and forwarding to other tools. One tool required Snare use a comma as a 
> > delimiter so all the servers are configured to use a comma. The problem is 
> > we have added another tool that we would like to forward logs to that wants 
> > the original Snare delimiter, which is a tab character.
> >
> > Is there a way to replace all commas in rawmsg with a tab character? I 
> > could not figure out a way to do this with a template because the message 
> > format is strange and multiple fields from Snare are combined in the syslog 
> > fields. Here is (sanitized) debug output:
> >
> > Debug line with all properties:
> > FROMHOST: '1.2.3.4', fromhost-ip: '1.2.3.4', HOSTNAME: 
> > 'Hostname.domain.com', PRI: 134,
> > syslogtag 'MSWinEventLog,1,Security,695810,Mon', programname: 
> > 'MSWinEventLog,1,Security,695810,Mon', APP-NAME: 
> > 'MSWinEventLog,1,Security,695810,Mon', PROCID: '-', MSGID: '-',
> > TIMESTAMP: 'Feb 25 16:38:03', STRUCTURED-DATA: '-',
> > msg: ' Feb 25 16:38:00 
> > 2013,4634,Microsoft-Windows-Security-Auditing,ITS-W2KS02ADR$,N/A,Success 
> > Audit,Hostname.domain.com,None,,An account was logged off.    Subject:   
> > Security ID:  S-1-5-21-299502267-36228127-1238915-1106   Account Name:  
> > DCNAME$   Account Domain:  DOMAIN   Logon ID:  0x8178814    Logon Type:   3 
> >    This event is generated when a logon session is destroyed. It may be 
> > positively correlated with a logon event using the Logon ID value. Logon 
> > IDs are only unique between reboots on the same computer.,695323 '
> > escaped msg: ' Feb 25 16:38:00 
> > 2013,4634,Microsoft-Windows-Security-Auditing,DCNAME$,N/A,Success 
> > Audit,Hostname.domain.com,None,,An account was logged off.    Subject:   
> > Security ID:  S-1-5-21-299502267-36228127-1238915-1106   Account Name:  
> > DCNAME$   Account Domain:  DOMAIN   Logon ID:  0x8178814    Logon Type:   3 
> >    This event is generated when a logon session is destroyed. It may be 
> > positively correlated with a logon event using the Logon ID value. Logon 
> > IDs are only unique between reboots on the same computer.,695323 '
> > inputname: imudp rawmsg: '<134>Feb 25 16:38:03 Hostname.domain.com 
> > MSWinEventLog,1,Security,695810,Mon Feb 25 16:38:00 
> > 2013,4634,Microsoft-Windows-Security-Auditing,DCNAME$,N/A,Success 
> > Audit,Hostname.domain.com,None,,An account was logged off.    Subject:   
> > Security ID:  S-1-5-21-299502267-36228127-1238915-1106   Account Name:  
> > DCNAME$   Account Domain:  DOMAIN   Logon ID:  0x8178814    Logon Type:   3 
> >    This event is generated when a logon session is destroyed. It may be 
> > positively correlated with a logon event using the Logon ID value. Logon 
> > IDs are only unique between reboots on the same computer.,695323 '
> >
> >
> > Any way to do that substitution? Or any other creative solutions?
> >
> > Thank you in advance,
> > Dan Woodruff
> >
> >
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