How have people dealt with multiple controllers and syslog.

A typical syslog entry from a controller is in the format:
 
 Dec 28 09:50:18 .682 dtl_net.c:1299 DTL-1-ARP_POISON_DETECTED: STA
[00:11:24:9c:4c:8a, 0.0.0.0] ARP (op 1) received with invalid SPA
169.254.99.205/TPA 169.254.99.205

Syslog interprets .682 as the hostname but I am not sure as to what
exactly the string represents.(I am guessing it may be part of the oid
string that represents the access point.)

So with many controllers sysloging to a remote listener it is currently
impossible to make any good use of the logs.  
 
I could use different facilities to represent different controllers but
that is not possible in our environment as we are already using most of
the other facilities for logging from other network devices plus I would
still need to decode the hostname to figure out what device is actually
creating the message. It would be very suboptimal if I have to parse
every hostname against some sort of snmp query to make the syslogs
useful. 

Any suggestions?

Jeffrey Farese
UConn UITS Network Engineering 
University Of Connecticut

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