NETMOD WG C. Wildes, Ed.
Internet-Draft Cisco Systems Inc.
Intended status: Standards Track K. Koushik, Ed.
Expires: December 07, 2017 Verizon Wireless
June 07, 2017
A YANG Data Model for Syslog Configuration
draft-ietf-netmod-syslog-model-15
Abstract
This document describes a data model for the configuration of syslog.
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Table of Contents
1. Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
1.1. Requirements Language . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
1.2. Terminology . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
2. Problem Statement . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
3. Design of the Syslog Model . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
3.1. Syslog Module . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
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4. Syslog YANG Module . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
4.1. The ietf-syslog Module . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
5. Usage Examples . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
6. Acknowledgements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24
7. IANA Considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25
8. Security Considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25
8.1. Resource Constraints . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26
8.2. Inappropriate Configuration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26
9. References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26
9.1. Normative References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26
9.2. Informative References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27
Appendix A. Implementor Guidelines . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27
Appendix A.1. Extending Facilities . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27
Authors' Addresses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28
1. Introduction
Operating systems, processes and applications generate messages
indicating their own status or the occurrence of events. These
messages are useful for managing and/or debugging the network and its
services. The BSD syslog protocol is a widely adopted protocol that
is used for transmission and processing of the messages.
Since each process, application and operating system was written
somewhat independently, there is little uniformity to the content of
syslog messages. For this reason, no assumption is made upon the
formatting or contents of the messages. The protocol is simply
designed to transport these event messages. No acknowledgement of
the receipt is made.
Essentially, a syslog process receives messages (from the kernel,
processes, applications or other syslog processes) and processes
those. The processing involves logging to a local file, displaying
on console, and/or relaying to syslog processes on other machines.
The processing is determined by the "facility" that originated the
message and the "severity" assigned to the message by the facility.
We are using definitions of syslog protocol from RFC5424 [RFC5424] in
this RFC.
1.1. Requirements Language
The key words "MUST", "MUST NOT", "REQUIRED", "SHALL", "SHALL NOT",
"SHOULD", "SHOULD NOT", "RECOMMENDED", "MAY", and "OPTIONAL" in this
document are to be interpreted as described in RFC2119 [RFC2119].
1.2. Terminology
The term "originator" is defined in [RFC5424]: an "originator"
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generates syslog content to be carried in a message.
The terms "relay" and "collectors" are as defined in [RFC5424].
2. Problem Statement
This document defines a YANG [RFC6020] configuration data model that
may be used to configure the syslog feature running on a system.
YANG models can be used with network management protocols such as
NETCONF [RFC6241] to install, manipulate, and delete the
configuration of network devices.
The data model makes use of the YANG "feature" construct which allows
implementations to support only those syslog features that lie within
their capabilities.
This module can be used to configure the syslog application
conceptual layers as implemented on the target system.
3. Design of the Syslog Model
The syslog model was designed by comparing various syslog features
implemented by various vendors' in different implementations.
This draft addresses the common leafs between implementations and
creates a common model, which can be augmented with proprietary
features, if necessary. This model is designed to be very simple for
maximum flexibility.
Optional features are used to specify functionality that is present
in specific vendor configurations.
Syslog consists of originators, and collectors. The following
diagram shows syslog messages flowing from an originator, to
collectors where filtering can take place.
Many vendors extend the list of facilities available for logging in
their implementation. An example is included in Extending Facilities
(Appendix A.1).
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Originators
+-------------+ +-------------+ +-------------+ +-------------+
| Various | | OS | | | | Remote |
| Components | | Kernel | | Line Cards | | Servers |
+-------------+ +-------------+ +-------------+ +-------------+
+-------------+ +-------------+ +-------------+ +-------------+
| SNMP | | Interface | | Standby | | Syslog |
| Events | | Events | | Supervisor | | Itself |
+-------------+ +-------------+ +-------------+ +-------------+
| |
+----------------------------------------------------------------+
|
|
|
|
+-------------+--------------+
| | |
v v v
Collectors
+----------+ +----------+ +----------------+
| | | Log | |Remote Relay(s)/|
| Console | | File(s) | |Collector(s) |
+----------+ +----------+ +----------------+
Figure 1. Syslog Processing Flow
The leaves in the syslog model "actions" container correspond to each
message collector:
console
log file(s)
remote relay(s)/collector(s)
Within each action, a selector is used to filter syslog messages. A
selector consists of a list of one or more facility-severity matches,
and, if supported via the select-match feature, an optional regular
expression pattern match that is performed on the SYSLOG-MSG
[RFC5424] field.
A syslog message is processed if:
There is an element of facility-list (F, S) where
the message facility matches F (if it is present)
and the message severity matches S (if it is present)
or the message text matches the regex pattern (if it is present)
The facility is one of a specific syslog-facility, or all facilities.
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The severity is one of type syslog-severity, all severities, or none.
None is a special case that can be used to disable a filter. When
filtering severity, the default comparison is that messages of the
specified severity and higher are selected to be logged. This is
shown in the model as "default equals-or-higher". This behavior can
be altered if the select-adv-compare feature is enabled to specify a
compare operation and an action. Compare operations are: "equals" to
select messages with this single severity, or "equals-or-higher" to
select messages of the specified severity and higher. Actions are
used to log the message or block the message from being logged.
3.1. Syslog Module
A simplified graphical representation of the data model is used in
this document. The meaning of the symbols in these diagrams is
defined in [RFC6087].
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module: ietf-syslog
+--rw syslog!
+--rw actions
+--rw console! {console-action}?
| +--rw facility-filter
| +--rw facility-list* [facility severity]
| | +--rw facility union
| | +--rw severity union
| | +--rw advanced-compare {select-adv-compare}?
| | +--rw compare? enumeration
| | +--rw action? enumeration
| +--rw pattern-match? string {select-match}?
+--rw file {file-action}?
| +--rw log-file* [name]
| +--rw name inet:uri
| +--rw facility-filter
| | +--rw facility-list* [facility severity]
| | | +--rw facility union
| | | +--rw severity union
| | | +--rw advanced-compare {select-adv-compare}?
| | | +--rw compare? enumeration
| | | +--rw action? enumeration
| | +--rw pattern-match? string {select-match}?
| +--rw structured-data? boolean {structured-data}?
| +--rw file-rotation
| +--rw number-of-files? uint32 {file-limit-size}?
| +--rw max-file-size? uint32 {file-limit-size}?
| +--rw rollover? uint32 {file-limit-duration}?
| +--rw retention? uint32 {file-limit-duration}?
+--rw remote {remote-action}?
+--rw destination* [name]
+--rw name string
+--rw (transport)
| +--:(tcp)
| | +--rw tcp
| | +--rw address? inet:host
| | +--rw port? inet:port-number
| +--:(udp)
| | +--rw udp
| | +--rw address? inet:host
| | +--rw port? inet:port-number
| +--:(tls)
| +--rw tls
| +--rw server-auth
| | +--rw trusted-ca-certs? -> /ks:keystore/trusted-certificates/name
| | +--rw trusted-server-certs? -> /ks:keystore/trusted-certificates/name
| +--rw client-auth
| | +--rw (auth-type)?
| | +--:(certificate)
| | +--rw certificate? -> /ks:keystore/keys/key/certificates/certificate/name
| +--rw hello-params {tls-client-hello-params-config}?
| | +--rw tls-versions
| | | +--rw tls-version* identityref
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| | +--rw cipher-suites
| | +--rw cipher-suite* identityref
| +--rw port? inet:port-number
+--rw facility-filter
| +--rw facility-list* [facility severity]
| | +--rw facility union
| | +--rw severity union
| | +--rw advanced-compare {select-adv-compare}?
| | +--rw compare? enumeration
| | +--rw action? enumeration
| +--rw pattern-match? string {select-match}?
+--rw structured-data? boolean {structured-data}?
+--rw facility-override? identityref
+--rw source-interface? if:interface-ref {remote-source-interface}?
+--rw signing-options! {signed-messages}?
+--rw cert-signers
+--rw cert-signer* [name]
| +--rw name string
| +--rw certificate? -> /ks:keystore/keys/key/certificates/certificate/name
| +--rw hash-algorithm? enumeration
+--rw cert-initial-repeat? uint32
+--rw cert-resend-delay? uint32
+--rw cert-resend-count? uint32
+--rw sig-max-delay? uint32
+--rw sig-number-resends? uint32
+--rw sig-resend-delay? uint32
+--rw sig-resend-count? uint32
Figure 2. ietf-syslog Module Tree
4. Syslog YANG Module
4.1. The ietf-syslog Module
This module imports typedefs from [RFC6021], [RFC7223], [RFC draft
ietf-tls-client], and [RFC draft ietf-keystore], and it references
[RFC5424], [RFC5425], [RFC5426], [RFC6587], and [RFC5848].
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<CODE BEGINS> file "ietf-syslog.yang"
module ietf-syslog {
namespace "urn:ietf:params:xml:ns:yang:ietf-syslog";
prefix syslog;
import ietf-inet-types {
prefix inet;
}
import ietf-interfaces {
prefix if;
}
import ietf-tls-client {
prefix tlsc;
}
import ietf-keystore {
prefix ks;
}
organization "IETF NETMOD (NETCONF Data Modeling Language)
Working Group";
contact
"WG Web: <http://tools.ietf.org/wg/netmod/>
WG List: <mailto:netmod@ietf.org>
Editor: Kiran Agrahara Sreenivasa
<mailto:kirankoushik.agraharasreenivasa@verizonwireless.com>
Editor: Clyde Wildes
<mailto:cwildes@cisco.com>";
description
"This module contains a collection of YANG definitions
for syslog configuration.
Copyright (c) 2016 IETF Trust and the persons identified as
authors of the code. All rights reserved.
Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or
without modification, is permitted pursuant to, and subject to
the license terms contained in, the Simplified BSD License set
forth in Section 4.c of the IETF Trust's Legal Provisions
Relating to IETF Documents
(http://trustee.ietf.org/license-info).
The key words 'MUST', 'MUST NOT', 'REQUIRED', 'SHALL', 'SHALL
NOT', 'SHOULD', 'SHOULD NOT', 'RECOMMENDED', 'MAY', and
'OPTIONAL' in the module text are to be interpreted as described
in RFC 2119 (http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc2119).
This version of this YANG module is part of RFC XXXX
(http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfcXXXX); see the RFC itself for
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full legal notices.";
reference
"RFC 5424: The Syslog Protocol
RFC 5425: Transport Layer Security (TLS) Transport Mapping for Syslog
RFC 5426: Transmission of Syslog Messages over UDP
RFC 6587: Transmission of Syslog Messages over TCP
RFC 5848: Signed Syslog Messages
RFC xxxx: Keystore Management
RFC xxxx: Transport Layer Security (TLS) Client";
revision 2017-06-07 {
description
"Initial Revision";
reference
"RFC XXXX: Syslog YANG Model";
}
feature console-action {
description
"This feature indicates that the local console action is
supported.";
}
feature file-action {
description
"This feature indicates that the local file action is
supported.";
}
feature file-limit-size {
description
"This feature indicates that file logging resources
are managed using size and number limits.";
}
feature file-limit-duration {
description
"This feature indicates that file logging resources
are managed using time based limits.";
}
feature remote-action {
description
"This feature indicates that the remote server action is
supported.";
}
feature remote-source-interface {
description
"This feature indicates that source-interface is supported
supported for the remote-action.";
}
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feature select-adv-compare {
description
"This feature represents the ability to select messages
using the additional comparison operators when comparing
the syslog message severity.";
}
feature select-match {
description
"This feature represents the ability to select messages based
on a Posix 1003.2 regular expression pattern match.";
}
feature structured-data {
description
"This feature represents the ability to log messages
in structured-data format as per RFC 5424.";
}
feature signed-messages {
description
"This feature represents the ability to configure signed
syslog messages according to RFC 5848.";
}
typedef syslog-severity {
type enumeration {
enum "emergency" {
value 0;
description
"The severity level 'Emergency' indicating that the system
is unusable.";
}
enum "alert" {
value 1;
description
"The severity level 'Alert' indicating that an action must be
taken immediately.";
}
enum "critical" {
value 2;
description
"The severity level 'Critical' indicating a critical condition.";
}
enum "error" {
value 3;
description
"The severity level 'Error' indicating an error condition.";
}
enum "warning" {
value 4;
description
"The severity level 'Warning' indicating a warning condition.";
}
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enum "notice" {
value 5;
description
"The severity level 'Notice' indicating a normal but significant
condition.";
}
enum "info" {
value 6;
description
"The severity level 'Info' indicating an informational message.";
}
enum "debug" {
value 7;
description
"The severity level 'Debug' indicating a debug-level message.";
}
}
description
"The definitions for Syslog message severity as per RFC 5424.";
}
identity syslog-facility {
description
"This identity is used as a base for all syslog facilities as
per RFC 5424.";
}
identity kern {
base syslog-facility;
description
"The facility for kernel messages (0) as defined in RFC 5424.";
}
identity user {
base syslog-facility;
description
"The facility for user-level messages (1) as defined in RFC 5424.";
}
identity mail {
base syslog-facility;
description
"The facility for the mail system (2) as defined in RFC 5424.";
}
identity daemon {
base syslog-facility;
description
"The facility for the system daemons (3) as defined in RFC 5424.";
}
identity auth {
base syslog-facility;
description
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"The facility for security/authorization messages (4) as defined
in RFC 5424.";
}
identity syslog {
base syslog-facility;
description
"The facility for messages generated internally by syslogd
facility (5) as defined in RFC 5424.";
}
identity lpr {
base syslog-facility;
description
"The facility for the line printer subsystem (6) as defined in
RFC 5424.";
}
identity news {
base syslog-facility;
description
"The facility for the network news subsystem (7) as defined in
RFC 5424.";
}
identity uucp {
base syslog-facility;
description
"The facility for the UUCP subsystem (8) as defined in RFC 5424.";
}
identity cron {
base syslog-facility;
description
"The facility for the clock daemon (9) as defined in RFC 5424.";
}
identity authpriv {
base syslog-facility;
description
"The facility for privileged security/authorization messages (10)
as defined in RFC 5424.";
}
identity ftp {
base syslog-facility;
description
"The facility for the FTP daemon (11) as defined in RFC 5424.";
}
identity ntp {
base syslog-facility;
description
"The facility for the NTP subsystem (12) as defined in RFC 5424.";
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}
identity audit {
base syslog-facility;
description
"The facility for log audit messages (13) as defined in RFC 5424.";
}
identity console {
base syslog-facility;
description
"The facility for log alert messages (14) as defined in RFC 5424.";
}
identity cron2 {
base syslog-facility;
description
"The facility for the second clock daemon (15) as defined in
RFC 5424.";
}
identity local0 {
base syslog-facility;
description
"The facility for local use 0 messages (16) as defined in
RFC 5424.";
}
identity local1 {
base syslog-facility;
description
"The facility for local use 1 messages (17) as defined in
RFC 5424.";
}
identity local2 {
base syslog-facility;
description
"The facility for local use 2 messages (18) as defined in
RFC 5424.";
}
identity local3 {
base syslog-facility;
description
"The facility for local use 3 messages (19) as defined in
RFC 5424.";
}
identity local4 {
base syslog-facility;
description
"The facility for local use 4 messages (20) as defined in
RFC 5424.";
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}
identity local5 {
base syslog-facility;
description
"The facility for local use 5 messages (21) as defined in
RFC 5424.";
}
identity local6 {
base syslog-facility;
description
"The facility for local use 6 messages (22) as defined in
RFC 5424.";
}
identity local7 {
base syslog-facility;
description
"The facility for local use 7 messages (23) as defined in
RFC 5424.";
}
grouping severity-filter {
description
"This grouping defines the processing used to select
log messages by comparing syslog message severity using
the following processing rules:
- if 'none', do not match.
- if 'all', match.
- else compare message severity with the specified severity
according to the default compare rule (all messages of the
specified severity and greater match) or if the
select-adv-compare feature is present, the advance-compare
rule.";
leaf severity {
type union {
type syslog-severity;
type enumeration {
enum none {
value -2;
description
"This enum describes the case where no severities
are selected.";
}
enum all {
value -1;
description
"This enum describes the case where all severities
are selected.";
}
}
}
mandatory true;
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description
"This leaf specifies the syslog message severity.";
}
container advanced-compare {
when '../severity != "all" and
../severity != "none"' {
description
"The advanced compare container is not applicable for severity
'all' or severity 'none'";
}
if-feature select-adv-compare;
leaf compare {
type enumeration {
enum equals {
description
"This enum specifies that the severity comparison operation
will be equals.";
}
enum equals-or-higher {
description
"This enum specifies that the severity comparison operation
will be equals or higher.";
}
}
default equals-or-higher;
description
"The compare can be used to specify the comparison operator that
should be used to compare the syslog message severity with the
specified severity.";
}
leaf action {
type enumeration {
enum log {
description
"This enum specifies that if the compare operation is true
the message will be logged.";
}
enum block {
description
"This enum specifies that if the compare operation is true
the message will not be logged.";
}
}
default log;
description
"The action can be used to spectify if the message should be
logged or blocked based on the outcome of the compare operation.";
}
description
"This leaf describes additional severity compare operations that can
be used in place of the default severity comparison. The compare leaf
specifies the type of the compare that is done and the action leaf
specifies the intended result. Example: compare->equals and action->
no-match means messages that have a severity that is not equal to the
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specified severity will be logged.";
}
}
grouping selector {
description
"This grouping defines a syslog selector which is used to
select log messages for the log-actions (console, file,
remote, etc.). Choose one or both of the following:
facility [<facility> <severity>...]
pattern-match regular-expression-match-string
If both facility and pattern-match are specified, both must
match in order for a log message to be selected.";
container facility-filter {
description
"This container describes the syslog filter parameters.";
list facility-list {
key "facility severity";
ordered-by user;
description
"This list describes a collection of syslog
facilities and severities.";
leaf facility {
type union {
type identityref {
base syslog-facility;
}
type enumeration {
enum all {
description
"This enum describes the case where all
facilities are requested.";
}
}
}
description
"The leaf uniquely identifies a syslog facility.";
}
uses severity-filter;
}
leaf pattern-match {
if-feature select-match;
type string;
description
"This leaf describes a Posix 1003.2 regular expression
string that can be used to select a syslog message for
logging. The match is performed on the RFC 5424
SYSLOG-MSG field.";
}
}
}
grouping structured-data {
description
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"This grouping defines the syslog structured data option
which is used to select the format used to write log
messages.";
leaf structured-data {
if-feature structured-data;
type boolean;
default false;
description
"This leaf describes how log messages are written.
If true, messages will be written with one or more
STRUCTURED-DATA elements as per RFC5424; if false,
messages will be written with STRUCTURED-DATA =
NILVALUE.";
}
}
container syslog {
presence "Enables logging.";
description
"This container describes the configuration parameters for
syslog.";
container actions {
description
"This container describes the log-action parameters
for syslog.";
container console {
if-feature console-action;
presence "Enables logging to the console";
description
"This container describes the configuration parameters for
console logging.";
uses selector;
}
container file {
if-feature file-action;
description
"This container describes the configuration parameters for
file logging. If file-archive limits are not supplied, it
is assumed that the local implementation defined limits will
be used.";
list log-file {
key "name";
description
"This list describes a collection of local logging
files.";
leaf name {
type inet:uri {
pattern 'file:.*';
}
description
"This leaf specifies the name of the log file which
MUST use the uri scheme file:.";
}
uses selector;
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uses structured-data;
container file-rotation {
description
"This container describes the configuration
parameters for log file rotation.";
leaf number-of-files {
if-feature file-limit-size;
type uint32;
default 1;
description
"This leaf specifies the maximum number of log
files retained. Specify 1 for implementations
that only support one log file.";
}
leaf max-file-size {
if-feature file-limit-size;
type uint32;
units "megabytes";
description
"This leaf specifies the maximum log file size.";
}
leaf rollover {
if-feature file-limit-duration;
type uint32;
units "minutes";
description
"This leaf specifies the length of time that log
events should be written to a specific log file.
Log events that arrive after the rollover period
cause the current log file to be closed and a new
log file to be opened.";
}
leaf retention {
if-feature file-limit-duration;
type uint32;
units "hours";
description
"This leaf specifies the length of time that
completed/closed log event files should be stored
in the file system before they are deleted.";
}
}
}
}
container remote {
if-feature remote-action;
description
"This container describes the configuration parameters for
forwarding syslog messages to remote relays or collectors.";
list destination {
key "name";
description
"This list describes a collection of remote logging
destinations.";
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leaf name {
type string;
description
"An arbitrary name for the endpoint to connect to.";
}
choice transport {
mandatory true;
description
"This choice describes the transport option.";
case tcp {
container tcp {
description
"This container describes the TCP transport
options.";
reference
"RFC 6587: Transmission of Syslog Messages over TCP";
leaf address {
type inet:host;
description
"The leaf uniquely specifies the address of
the remote host. One of the following must
be specified: an ipv4 address, an ipv6
address, or a host name.";
}
leaf port {
type inet:port-number;
default 514;
description
"This leaf specifies the port number used to
deliver messages to the remote server.";
}
}
}
case udp {
container udp {
description
"This container describes the UDP transport
options.";
reference
"RFC 5426: Transmission of Syslog Messages over UDP";
leaf address {
type inet:host;
description
"The leaf uniquely specifies the address of
the remote host. One of the following must be
specified: an ipv4 address, an ipv6 address,
or a host name.";
}
leaf port {
type inet:port-number;
default 514;
description
"This leaf specifies the port number used to
deliver messages to the remote server.";
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}
}
}
case tls {
container tls {
description
"This container describes the TLS transport options.";
reference
"RFC 5425: Transport Layer Security (TLS) Transport
Mapping for Syslog ";
uses tlsc:tls-client-grouping;
leaf port {
type inet:port-number;
default 6514;
description
"TCP port 6514 has been allocated as the default
port for syslog over TLS.";
}
}
}
}
uses selector;
uses structured-data;
leaf facility-override {
type identityref {
base syslog-facility;
}
description
"If specified, this leaf specifies the facility used
to override the facility in messages delivered to the
remote server.";
}
leaf source-interface {
if-feature remote-source-interface;
type if:interface-ref;
description
"This leaf sets the source interface to be used to send
message to the remote syslog server. If not set,
messages sent to a remote syslog server will
contain the IP address of the interface the syslog
message uses to exit the network element";
}
container signing-options {
if-feature signed-messages;
presence
"If present, syslog-signing options is activated.";
description
"This container describes the configuration
parameters for signed syslog messages as described
by RFC 5848.";
reference
"RFC 5848: Signed Syslog Messages";
container cert-signers {
description
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"This container describes the signing certificate configuration
for Signature Group 0 which covers the case for administrators
who want all Signature Blocks to be sent to a single destination.";
list cert-signer {
key "name";
description
"This list describes a collection of syslog message
signers.";
leaf name {
type string;
description
"This leaf specifies the name of the syslog message
signer.";
}
leaf certificate {
type leafref {
path "/ks:keystore/ks:keys/ks:key/ks:certificates"
+ "/ks:certificate/ks:name";
}
description
"This is the certificate that is periodically sent to the remote
receiver. Selection of the certificate also implicitly selects
the private key used to sign the syslog messages.";
}
leaf hash-algorithm {
type enumeration {
enum SHA1 {
value 1;
description
"This enum describes the SHA1 algorithm.";
}
enum SHA256 {
value 2;
description
"This enum describes the SHA256 algorithm.";
}
}
description
"This leaf describes the syslog signer hash
algorithm used.";
}
}
leaf cert-initial-repeat {
type uint32;
default 3;
description
"This leaf specifies the number of times each
Certificate Block should be sent before the first
message is sent.";
}
leaf cert-resend-delay {
type uint32;
units "seconds";
default 3600;
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description
"This leaf specifies the maximum time delay in
seconds until resending the Certificate Block.";
}
leaf cert-resend-count {
type uint32;
default 0;
description
"This leaf specifies the maximum number of other
syslog messages to send until resending the
Certificate Block.";
}
leaf sig-max-delay {
type uint32;
units "seconds";
default 60;
description
"This leaf specifies when to generate a new
Signature Block. If this many seconds have
elapsed since the message with the first message
number of the Signature Block was sent, a new
Signature Block should be generated.";
}
leaf sig-number-resends {
type uint32;
default 0;
description
"This leaf specifies the number of times a
Signature Block is resent. (It is recommended to
select a value of greater than 0 in particular
when the UDP transport [RFC5426] is used.).";
}
leaf sig-resend-delay {
type uint32;
units "seconds";
default 5;
description
"This leaf specifies when to send the next
Signature Block transmission based on time. If
this many seconds have elapsed since the previous
sending of this Signature Block, resend it.";
}
leaf sig-resend-count {
type uint32;
default 0;
description
"This leaf specifies when to send the next
Signature Block transmission based on a count.
If this many other syslog messages have been sent
since the previous sending of this Signature
Block, resend it. A value of 0 means that you
don't resend based on the number of messages.";
}
}
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}
}
}
}
}
}
<CODE ENDS>
Figure 3. ietf-syslog Module
5. Usage Examples
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Requirement:
Enable console logging of syslogs of severity critical
Here is the example syslog configuration xml:
<config xmlns:xc="urn:ietf:params:xml:ns:netconf:base:1.0">
<syslog xmlns="urn:ietf:params:xml:ns:yang:ietf-syslog"
xmlns:syslog="urn:ietf:params:xml:ns:yang:ietf-syslog">
<actions>
<console>
<selector>
<facility-list>
<facility>all</facility>
<severity>critical</severity>
</facility-list>
</selector>
</console>
</actions>
</syslog>
</config>
Enable remote logging of syslogs to udp destination 2001:db8:a0b:12f0::1
for facility auth, severity error
<config xmlns:xc="urn:ietf:params:xml:ns:netconf:base:1.0">
<syslog xmlns="urn:ietf:params:xml:ns:yang:ietf-syslog"
xmlns:syslog="urn:ietf:params:xml:ns:yang:ietf-syslog">
<actions>
<remote>
<destination>
<name>remote1</name>
<udp>
<address>2001:db8:a0b:12f0::1</address>
</udp>
<selector>
<facility-list>
<facility>auth</facility>
<severity>error</severity>
</facility-list>
</selector>
</destination>
</remote>
</actions>
</syslog>
</config>
Figure 4. ietf-syslog Examples
6. Acknowledgements
The authors wish to thank the following who commented on this
proposal:
Andy Bierman
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Martin Bjorklund
Alex Campbell
Alex Clemm
Jim Gibson
Jeffrey Haas
John Heasley
Giles Heron
Lisa Huang
Mahesh Jethanandani
Jeffrey K Lange
Jan Lindblad
Chris Lonvick
Tom Petch
Juergen Schoenwaelder
Phil Shafer
Jason Sterne
Peter Van Horne
Kent Watsen
Bert Wijnen
Dale R Worley
Aleksandr Zhdankin
7. IANA Considerations
This document registers one URI in the IETF XML registry [RFC3688].
Following the format in RFC 3688, the following registration is
requested to be made:
URI: urn:ietf:params:xml:ns:yang:ietf-syslog
Registrant Contact: The IESG.
XML: N/A, the requested URI is an XML namespace.
This document registers a YANG module in the YANG Module Names
registry [RFC6020].
name: ietf-syslog namespace: urn:ietf:params:xml:ns:yang:ietf-syslog
prefix: ietf-syslog
reference: RFC XXXX
8. Security Considerations
The YANG module defined in this memo is designed to be accessed via
the NETCONF protocol [RFC6241]. The lowest NETCONF layer is the
secure transport layer and the mandatory-to-implement secure
transport is SSH [RFC6242]. The NETCONF access control model
[RFC6536] provides the means to restrict access for particular
NETCONF users to a pre-configured subset of all available NETCONF
protocol operations and content.
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There are a number of data nodes defined in the YANG module which are
writable/creatable/deletable (i.e., config true, which is the
default). These data nodes may be considered sensitive or vulnerable
in some network environments. Write operations (e.g., <edit-config>)
to these data nodes without proper protection can have a negative
effect on network operations.
8.1. Resource Constraints
Network administrators must take the time to estimate the appropriate
memory limits caused by the configuration of actions/buffer using
buffer-limit-bytes and/or buffer-limit-messages where necessary to
limit the amount of memory used.
Network administrators must take the time to estimate the appropriate
storage capacity caused by the configuration of actions/file using
file-archive attributes to limit storage used.
It is the responsibility of the network administrator to ensure that
the configured message flow does not overwhelm system resources.
8.2. Inappropriate Configuration
It is the responsibility of the network administrator to ensure that
the messages are actually going to the intended recipients.
9. References
9.1. Normative References
[RFC2119] Bradner, S., "Key words for use in RFCs to Indicate
Requirement Levels", BCP 14, RFC 2119, DOI 10.17487/
RFC2119, March 1997, <http://www.rfc-editor.org/info/
rfc2119>.
[RFC5424] Gerhards, R., "The Syslog Protocol", RFC 5424, DOI
10.17487/RFC5424, March 2009, <http://www.rfc-editor.org/
info/rfc5424>.
[RFC5426] Okmianski, A., "Transmission of Syslog Messages over UDP",
RFC 5426, DOI 10.17487/RFC5426, March 2009, <http://www
.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc5426>.
[RFC5848] Kelsey, J., Callas, J. and A. Clemm, "Signed Syslog
Messages", RFC 5848, DOI 10.17487/RFC5848, May 2010,
<http://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc5848>.
[RFC6020] Bjorklund, M., Ed., "YANG - A Data Modeling Language for
the Network Configuration Protocol (NETCONF)", RFC 6020,
DOI 10.17487/RFC6020, October 2010, <http://www.rfc-
editor.org/info/rfc6020>.
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[RFC6021] Schoenwaelder, J., Ed., "Common YANG Data Types", RFC
6021, DOI 10.17487/RFC6021, October 2010, <http://www.rfc-
editor.org/info/rfc6021>.
[RFC6587] Gerhards, R. and C. Lonvick, "Transmission of Syslog
Messages over TCP", RFC 6587, DOI 10.17487/RFC6587, April
2012, <http://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc6587>.
[RFC7223] Bjorklund, M., "A YANG Data Model for Interface
Management", RFC 7223, DOI 10.17487/RFC7223, May 2014,
<http://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc7223>.
9.2. Informative References
[RFC3688] Mealling, M., "The IETF XML Registry", BCP 81, RFC 3688,
DOI 10.17487/RFC3688, January 2004, <http://www.rfc-
editor.org/info/rfc3688>.
[RFC6241] Enns, R., Ed., Bjorklund, M., Ed., Schoenwaelder, J.Ed.,
and A. Bierman, Ed., "Network Configuration Protocol
(NETCONF)", RFC 6241, DOI 10.17487/RFC6241, June 2011,
<http://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc6241>.
[RFC6242] Wasserman, M., "Using the NETCONF Protocol over Secure
Shell (SSH)", RFC 6242, DOI 10.17487/RFC6242, June 2011,
<http://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc6242>.
Appendix A. Implementor Guidelines
Appendix A.1. Extending Facilities
Many vendors extend the list of facilities available for logging in
their implementation. Additional facilities may not work with the
syslog protocol as defined in [RFC5424] and hence such facilities
apply for local syslog-like logging functionality.
The following is an example that shows how additional facilities
could be added to the list of available facilities (in this example
two facilities are added):
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module vendor-syslog-types-example {
namespace "urn:vendor:params:xml:ns:yang:vendor-syslog-types";
prefix vendor-syslogtypes;
import ietf-syslog {
prefix syslogtypes;
}
organization "Example, Inc.";
contact
"Example, Inc.
Customer Service
E-mail: syslog-yang@example.com";
description
"This module contains a collection of vendor-specific YANG type
definitions for SYSLOG.";
revision 2017-03-13 {
description
"Version 1.0";
reference
"Vendor SYSLOG Types: SYSLOG YANG Model";
}
identity vendor_specific_type_1 {
base syslogtypes:syslog-facility;
}
identity vendor_specific_type_2 {
base syslogtypes:syslog-facility;
}
}
Authors' Addresses
Clyde Wildes, editor
Cisco Systems Inc.
170 West Tasman Drive
San Jose, CA 95134
US
Phone: +1 408 527-2672
Email: cwildes@cisco.com
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Kiran Koushik, editor
Verizon Wireless
500 W Dove Rd.
Southlake, TX 76092
US
Phone: +1 512 650-0210
Email: kirankoushik.agraharasreenivasa@verizonwireless.com
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