Syslog Working Group Glenn Mansfield Keeni
INTERNET-DRAFT Cyber Solutions Inc.
Intended Status: Proposed Standard
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Syslog Management Information Base
<draft-ietf-syslog-device-mib-17.txt>
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Abstract
This memo defines a portion of the Management Information Base (MIB),
the Syslog MIB, for use with network management protocols
in the Internet community. In particular, the Syslog MIB will be
used to monitor and control syslog applications.
Table of Contents
1. The Internet-Standard Management Framework .... 3
2. Background .................................... 3
3. The MIB Design ................................ 4
4. The Syslog MIB ................................ 6
5. Security Considerations ....................... 41
6. IANA Considerations ........................... 44
7. References .................................... 44
8 Acknowledgments ............................... 45
9. Author's Addresses ............................ 46
10. Full Copyright Statement ...................... 47
Appendix ...................................... 49
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1. The Internet-Standard Management Framework
For a detailed overview of the documents that describe the current
Internet-Standard Management Framework, please refer to section 7 of
RFC 3410 [RFC3410].
Managed objects are accessed via a virtual information store, termed
the Management Information Base or MIB. MIB objects are generally
accessed through the Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP).
Objects in the MIB are defined using the mechanisms defined in the
Structure of Management Information (SMI). This memo specifies a MIB
module that is compliant to the SMIv2, which is described in STD 58,
RFC 2578 [RFC2578], STD 58, RFC 2579 [RFC2579] and STD 58, RFC 2580
[RFC2580].
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 BCP 14, RFC 2119
[RFC2119].
2. Background
Operating systems, processes and applications, collectively termed
"facilities" in the following, generate messages indicating their own
status or the occurrence of events. These messages are handled by
what has come to be known as the syslog application[RFCPROT]. A
syslog application sends and/or receives syslog messages. The reader
is referred to [RFCPROT] for a description of the various roles of a
syslog application viz. "sender", "receiver" and "relay". The
discussion in this document in general applies to a generic syslog
application. For special cases the specific role of the syslog
application will be mentioned.
This document defines a set of managed objects (MOs) that can be used
to monitor a group of syslog applications.
The SYSLOG-MIB can be used in conjunction with other MIB modules - in
particular the Host Resources MIB[RFC2790]. The generic process
related matters e.g. control and monitoring for status, resource
usage etc. can be serviced by the corresponding entries in the Host
Resources MIB.
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+------+
Syslog message ----->| App1 |
+------+
+------+
Syslog message ----->| App2 |------> Syslog message
+------+
+------+
| App3 |------> Syslog message
+------+
App1: Syslog collector ( syslog receiver)
App2: Syslog relay ( syslog receiver, syslog sender)
App3: Syslog originator (syslog sender)
Fig.1 Syslog applications modeled by the SYSLOG-MIB
The syslog applications modeled by the SYSLOG-MIB are shown in Fig.1.
A syslog receiver receives syslog messages. A syslog sender sends
syslog messages to other syslog applications. A syslog relay forwards
some of the received syslog messages to other syslog applications. A
syslog receiver receives a syslog message and processes it. The
processing will depend on the internal configuration and may involve
relaying the message to one or more syslog applications. Note that a
syslog application may have multiple roles. Multiple syslog
applications may co-exist on the same host.
3. The MIB Design.
The purpose of the SYSLOG-MIB is to allow the monitoring of a group
of syslog applications. This requires managed objects representing
the following elements.
o The configuration and status related details of each syslog
application.
o The statistics on syslog messages received, processed
locally, relayed by each syslog application.
The MIB contains three subtrees.
o The syslogNotifications subtree defines the set of
notifications that will be used to asynchronously report
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the change of status of a syslog application.
o The syslogObjects subtree contains three subtrees.
- The syslogControlTable subtree deals with the
configuration and control information for a syslog
application.
- The syslogOperationsTable subtree deals with operations
and statistical information about syslog messages sent
and/or received by a syslog application.
o The conformance subtree defines the compliance statements.
The SYSLOG-MIB module uses textual conventions defined in INET-
ADDRESS-MIB[RFC4001] and SNMP-FRAMEWORK-MIB[RFC3411].
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4. The Syslog MIB
SYSLOG-MIB DEFINITIONS ::= BEGIN
IMPORTS
MODULE-IDENTITY, OBJECT-TYPE,
Unsigned32, Counter32, Integer32, mib-2,
NOTIFICATION-TYPE
FROM SNMPv2-SMI
RowStatus, StorageType,
TEXTUAL-CONVENTION, TimeStamp
FROM SNMPv2-TC
InetAddressType, InetAddress, InetPortNumber
FROM INET-ADDRESS-MIB
MODULE-COMPLIANCE, OBJECT-GROUP, NOTIFICATION-GROUP
FROM SNMPv2-CONF
SyslogFacility, SyslogSeverity
FROM SYSLOG-TC-MIB
SnmpAdminString
FROM SNMP-FRAMEWORK-MIB;
syslogMIB MODULE-IDENTITY
LAST-UPDATED "200703040000Z" -- 4th March, 2007
ORGANIZATION "IETF Syslog Working Group"
CONTACT-INFO
" Glenn Mansfield Keeni
Postal: Cyber Solutions Inc.
6-6-3, Minami Yoshinari
Aoba-ku, Sendai, Japan 989-3204.
Tel: +81-22-303-4012
Fax: +81-22-303-4015
E-mail: glenn@cysols.com
Support Group E-mail: syslog@ietf.org
"
DESCRIPTION
"The MIB module for monitoring syslog applications.
A syslog application sends and/or receives syslog messages.
The reader is referred to [RFCPROT] for a description of
the various roles of a syslog application viz. ''sender'',
''receiver'' and ''relay''. The discussion in this
document in general applies to a generic syslog application.
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For special cases the specific role of the syslog
application will be mentioned.
Copyright (C) The IETF Trust (2008). This version of
this MIB module is part of RFC XXXX; see the RFC itself for
full legal notices.
"
-- RFC Ed.: replace XXXX with the actual RFC number & remove this
-- note
REVISION "200703040000Z" -- 4th March, 2007
DESCRIPTION
"The initial version, published as RFC XXXX."
-- RFC Ed.: replace XXXX with the actual RFC number & remove this
-- note
::= { mib-2 YYYY } -- Will be assigned by IANA
-- IANA Reg.: Please assign a value for "YYYY" under the
-- 'mib-2' subtree and record the assignment in the SMI
-- Numbers registry.
-- RFC Ed.: When the above assignment has been made, please
-- remove the above note
-- replace "YYYY" here with the assigned value and
-- remove this note.
-- -------------------------------------------------------------
-- Textual Conventions
-- -------------------------------------------------------------
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SyslogRoles ::= TEXTUAL-CONVENTION
STATUS current
DESCRIPTION
"This textual convention enumerates the roles of a
syslog application. Note that a syslog application can
have multiple roles.
"
REFERENCE
"The Syslog Protocol [RFCPROT] sec. 3.
"
SYNTAX BITS
{
sender (0),
receiver (1),
relay (2)
}
SyslogEncapsulation ::= TEXTUAL-CONVENTION
STATUS current
DESCRIPTION
"This textual convention enumerates the encapsulations
of the syslog message that is used between syslog
application endpoints.
"
REFERENCE
"Transmission of syslog messages over UDP [RFCUDPX],
TLS Transport Mapping for Syslog [RFCTLSX],
Reliable Delivery for syslog [RFC3195].
"
SYNTAX INTEGER
{
other (1),
none (2), -- [RFCUDPX] (no encapsulation)
tls (3), -- [RFCTLSX]
beep (4) -- [RFC3195]
}
-- syslogMIB - the main groups
-- -------------------------------------------------------------
syslogNotifications OBJECT IDENTIFIER
::= { syslogMIB 0 }
syslogObjects OBJECT IDENTIFIER
::= { syslogMIB 1 }
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syslogConformance OBJECT IDENTIFIER
::= { syslogMIB 3 }
-- -------------------------------------------------------------
-- syslog application configuration info table
-- -------------------------------------------------------------
syslogControlTable OBJECT-TYPE
SYNTAX SEQUENCE OF SyslogControlEntry
MAX-ACCESS not-accessible
STATUS current
DESCRIPTION
"A table containing the configuration parameters
pertaining to the syslog applications serviced by an
SNMP agent.
"
::= { syslogObjects 1 }
syslogControlEntry OBJECT-TYPE
SYNTAX SyslogControlEntry
MAX-ACCESS not-accessible
STATUS current
DESCRIPTION
"The configuration parameters pertaining to a syslog
application.
"
INDEX { syslogControlIndex }
::= { syslogControlTable 1 }
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SyslogControlEntry ::=
SEQUENCE {
syslogControlIndex
Unsigned32,
syslogControlDescr
SnmpAdminString,
syslogControlRoles
SyslogRoles,
syslogControlBindAddrType
InetAddressType,
syslogControlBindAddr
InetAddress,
syslogControlBindPort
InetPortNumber,
syslogControlEncapsulation
SyslogEncapsulation,
syslogControlMaxMessageSize
Unsigned32,
syslogControlConfFileName
SnmpAdminString,
syslogControlStorageType
StorageType,
syslogControlRowStatus
RowStatus
}
syslogControlIndex OBJECT-TYPE
SYNTAX Unsigned32 (1..2147483647)
MAX-ACCESS not-accessible
STATUS current
DESCRIPTION
"The Index that uniquely identifies the syslog
application in the syslogControlTable.
The value of the index for a syslog application may
not be the same across system reboots. Users and
applications will need to determine the index of a
syslog application after system reboots.
"
::= { syslogControlEntry 1 }
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syslogControlDescr OBJECT-TYPE
SYNTAX SnmpAdminString
MAX-ACCESS read-create
STATUS current
DESCRIPTION
"A user definable description of the syslog application.
This description could be used by syslog management
applications e.g. in reports or in user interfaces.
"
::= { syslogControlEntry 2 }
syslogControlRoles OBJECT-TYPE
SYNTAX SyslogRoles
MAX-ACCESS read-create
STATUS current
DESCRIPTION
"The roles of the syslog application.
"
::= { syslogControlEntry 3 }
syslogControlBindAddrType OBJECT-TYPE
SYNTAX InetAddressType
MAX-ACCESS read-create
STATUS current
DESCRIPTION
"The type of Internet address which follows
in syslogControlBindAddr.
If this syslog application is not a syslog receiver,
the value of this object will be 'unknown' (0).
"
::= { syslogControlEntry 4 }
syslogControlBindAddr OBJECT-TYPE
SYNTAX InetAddress
MAX-ACCESS read-create
STATUS current
DESCRIPTION
"The specific address the syslog receiver will bind to.
The format of the address is specified by the
corresponding syslogControlBindAddrType object.
If the address is specified in the DNS domain name format
[syslogControlBindAddrType = 'dns'], the
corresponding IPv4 or IPv6 address obtained at the time
of the binding operation by the syslog application, will be
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used.
If this syslog application is not a syslog receiver, the
value of this object will be a zero-length string.
"
::= { syslogControlEntry 5 }
syslogControlBindPort OBJECT-TYPE
SYNTAX InetPortNumber
MAX-ACCESS read-create
STATUS current
DESCRIPTION
"The port number that this syslog receiver will bind to.
If this syslog application is not a syslog receiver the
value of this object will be zero.
"
::= { syslogControlEntry 6 }
syslogControlEncapsulation OBJECT-TYPE
SYNTAX SyslogEncapsulation
MAX-ACCESS read-create
STATUS current
DESCRIPTION
"The encapsulation that will be used for syslog messages
by the syslog receiver.
If this syslog application is not a syslog receiver the
value of this object will be ''other''.
"
::= { syslogControlEntry 7 }
syslogControlMaxMessageSize OBJECT-TYPE
SYNTAX Unsigned32
MAX-ACCESS read-create
STATUS current
DESCRIPTION
"The maximum size of the syslog messages in bytes
for this syslog application.
A syslog receiver may reject or truncate messages larger
than the specified maximum syslog message size.
"
REFERENCE
"The Syslog Protocol [RFCPROT] sec. 6.1.
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"
::= { syslogControlEntry 8 }
syslogControlConfFileName OBJECT-TYPE
SYNTAX SnmpAdminString
MAX-ACCESS read-create
STATUS current
DESCRIPTION
"The fullpath name of the configuration file where the
syslog application's message selection and corresponding
action rules will be read from.
If the syslog application does not support the specification
of a configuration file, the value of this object will
be a zero-length string.
"
DEFVAL { "/etc/syslog.conf" }
::= { syslogControlEntry 9 }
syslogControlStorageType OBJECT-TYPE
SYNTAX StorageType
MAX-ACCESS read-create
STATUS current
DESCRIPTION
"This object defines whether the parameters defined in
this row are kept in volatile storage and lost upon
reboot or are backed up by non-volatile or permanent
storage.
Conceptual rows having the value 'permanent' need not
allow write-access to any columnar objects in the row.
"
DEFVAL { nonVolatile }
::= { syslogControlEntry 11 }
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syslogControlRowStatus OBJECT-TYPE
SYNTAX RowStatus
MAX-ACCESS read-create
STATUS current
DESCRIPTION
"This object is used to create, modify and delete rows in
the syslogControlTable.
The value of syslogControlDescr can be changed
when this object is in state ''active'' or in
''notInService''.
The other objects in a row can be modified only when the
value of this object in the corresponding conceptual row
is not ''active''. Thus to modify one or more of the
objects in this conceptual row,
a. change the row status to ''notInService'',
b. change the values of the row
c. change the row status to ''active''
The syslogControlRowStatus may be changed to
''active'' if all the managed objects in the conceptual
row with MAX-ACCESS read-create except
syslogControlBindPort and
syslogControlEncapsulation have been assigned valid
values.
"
::= { syslogControlEntry 12 }
-- -------------------------------------------------------------
-- syslogOperations
-- -------------------------------------------------------------
syslogOperationsTable OBJECT-TYPE
SYNTAX SEQUENCE OF SyslogOperationsEntry
MAX-ACCESS not-accessible
STATUS current
DESCRIPTION
"A table containing operations information about
the syslog applications serviced by an SNMP agent.
This table complements the (configuration) information
in syslogControlTable .
"
::= { syslogObjects 2 }
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syslogOperationsEntry OBJECT-TYPE
SYNTAX SyslogOperationsEntry
MAX-ACCESS not-accessible
STATUS current
DESCRIPTION
"The operations information pertaining to a syslog
application.
"
AUGMENTS { syslogControlEntry }
::= { syslogOperationsTable 1 }
SyslogOperationsEntry ::=
SEQUENCE {
syslogOperationsMsgsReceived
Counter32,
syslogOperationsMsgsTransmitted
Counter32,
syslogOperationsMsgsRelayed
Counter32,
syslogOperationsMsgsDropped
Counter32,
syslogOperationsMsgsMalFormed
Counter32,
syslogOperationsMsgsDiscarded
Counter32,
syslogOperationsLastMsgRecdTime
TimeStamp,
syslogOperationsLastMsgTransmittedTime
TimeStamp,
syslogOperationsStartTime
TimeStamp,
syslogOperationsLastError
SnmpAdminString,
syslogOperationsLastErrorTime
TimeStamp,
syslogOperationsRunIndex
Integer32,
syslogOperationsCounterDiscontinuityTime
TimeStamp,
syslogOperationsStatus
INTEGER
}
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syslogOperationsMsgsReceived OBJECT-TYPE
SYNTAX Counter32
MAX-ACCESS read-only
STATUS current
DESCRIPTION
"The number of messages received by the syslog
receiver. This includes messages that were discarded.
If this syslog application is not a syslog receiver the
value of this object will be zero.
Discontinuities in the value of this counter can
occur at re-initialization of the management system,
and at other times as indicated by the value of
syslogOperationsCounterDiscontinuityTime.
"
::= { syslogOperationsEntry 1 }
syslogOperationsMsgsTransmitted OBJECT-TYPE
SYNTAX Counter32
MAX-ACCESS read-only
STATUS current
DESCRIPTION
"The number of messages transmitted by the syslog
sender. This does not include the messages that could
not be queued for transmission by the syslog sender.
If this syslog application is not a syslog sender the
value of this object will be zero.
Discontinuities in the value of this counter can
occur at re-initialization of the management system,
and at other times as indicated by the value of
syslogOperationsCounterDiscontinuityTime.
"
::= { syslogOperationsEntry 2 }
syslogOperationsMsgsRelayed OBJECT-TYPE
SYNTAX Counter32
MAX-ACCESS read-only
STATUS current
DESCRIPTION
"The number of messages relayed by the syslog
relay to other syslog applications.
If this syslog application is not a syslog relay the value
of this object will be zero.
Discontinuities in the value of this counter can
occur at re-initialization of the management system,
and at other times as indicated by the value of
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syslogOperationsCounterDiscontinuityTime.
"
REFERENCE
"The Syslog Protocol [RFCPROT] sec. 3.
"
::= { syslogOperationsEntry 3 }
syslogOperationsMsgsDropped OBJECT-TYPE
SYNTAX Counter32
MAX-ACCESS read-only
STATUS current
DESCRIPTION
"The number of messages that could not be queued
for transmission by the syslog sender.
If this syslog application is not a syslog sender the
value of this object will be zero.
Discontinuities in the value of this counter can
occur at re-initialization of the management system,
and at other times as indicated by the value of
syslogOperationsCounterDiscontinuityTime.
"
::= { syslogOperationsEntry 4 }
syslogOperationsMsgsMalFormed OBJECT-TYPE
SYNTAX Counter32
MAX-ACCESS read-only
STATUS current
DESCRIPTION
"The number of messages received by the syslog
receiver which had malformed header.
If this syslog application is not a syslog receiver,
then this object will have a zero value.
Discontinuities in the value of this counter can
occur at re-initialization of the management system,
and at other times as indicated by the value of
syslogOperationsCounterDiscontinuityTime.
"
REFERENCE
"The Syslog Protocol [RFCPROT] sec. 6.3.
"
::= { syslogOperationsEntry 5 }
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syslogOperationsMsgsDiscarded OBJECT-TYPE
SYNTAX Counter32
MAX-ACCESS read-only
STATUS current
DESCRIPTION
"The number of messages that were discarded by the
syslog receiver. This will include messages that
were discarded because the message size was greater
than the system's maximum message size.
If this syslog application is not a syslog receiver this
object will have a zero value.
Discontinuities in the value of this counter can
occur at re-initialization of the management system,
and at other times as indicated by the value of
syslogOperationsCounterDiscontinuityTime.
"
REFERENCE
"The Syslog Protocol [RFCPROT] sec. 6.1.
"
::= { syslogOperationsEntry 6 }
syslogOperationsLastMsgRecdTime OBJECT-TYPE
SYNTAX TimeStamp
MAX-ACCESS read-only
STATUS current
DESCRIPTION
"The value of sysUpTime when the last message was
received by the syslog receiver.
If this syslog application is not a syslog receiver or,
if no messages have been received by this syslog
application, since the last re-initialization of the
local SNMP management subsystem, then this object
will have a zero value.
"
::= { syslogOperationsEntry 7 }
syslogOperationsLastMsgTransmittedTime OBJECT-TYPE
SYNTAX TimeStamp
MAX-ACCESS read-only
STATUS current
DESCRIPTION
"The value of sysUpTime when the last message
was transmitted by the syslog sender.
If this syslog application is not a syslog sender or,
if no messages have been transmitted by this syslog
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application, since the last re-initialization of the local
management subsystem, then this object will have a
zero value.
"
::= { syslogOperationsEntry 8 }
syslogOperationsStartTime OBJECT-TYPE
SYNTAX TimeStamp
MAX-ACCESS read-only
STATUS current
DESCRIPTION
"The value of sysUpTime when this syslog application was
started.
"
::= { syslogOperationsEntry 9 }
syslogOperationsLastError OBJECT-TYPE
SYNTAX SnmpAdminString
MAX-ACCESS read-only
STATUS current
DESCRIPTION
"A description of the last error related to sending,
receiving or processing a syslog message that was
encountered by this syslog application.
If no error has been encountered by this syslog
application then the value of this object will be a
zero-length string.
If no error has been encountered by this syslog
application since the last re-initialization of the
local management subsystem then the value of this
object will be a zero-length string.
"
::= { syslogOperationsEntry 10 }
syslogOperationsLastErrorTime OBJECT-TYPE
SYNTAX TimeStamp
MAX-ACCESS read-only
STATUS current
DESCRIPTION
"The value of sysUpTime when the last error was
encountered.
If no error has been encountered by this syslog
application since the last re-initialization of the
local management subsystem, then this object will
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have a zero value.
"
::= { syslogOperationsEntry 11 }
syslogOperationsRunIndex OBJECT-TYPE
SYNTAX Integer32 (0..2147483647)
MAX-ACCESS read-only
STATUS current
DESCRIPTION
"If the Host resource MIB is instantiated on the
host then this entry will have the value of the
hrSWRunIndex of the corresponding entry in the
hrSWRunTable.
Note that the hrSWRunIndex is not persistent
across system reboots or software restarts. The
value of syslogOperationsRunIndex SHOULD
reference the latest value of the hrSWRunIndex
of the corresponding entry in the hrSWRunTable.
The special value of zero indicates that the Host
resource MIB is not instantiated.
"
::= { syslogOperationsEntry 12 }
syslogOperationsCounterDiscontinuityTime OBJECT-TYPE
SYNTAX TimeStamp
MAX-ACCESS read-only
STATUS current
DESCRIPTION
"The value of sysUpTime on the most recent occasion
at which any one or more of this syslog application's
counters, viz., counters with OID prefix
'syslogOperationsMsgsReceived' or
'syslogOperationsMsgsTransmitted' or
'syslogOperationsMsgsRelayed' or
'syslogOperationsMsgsDropped' or
'syslogOperationsMsgsMalFormed' or
'syslogOperationsMsgsDiscarded' suffered a
discontinuity.
If no such discontinuities have occurred since the
last re-initialization of the local management
subsystem, then this object will have a zero value.
"
::= { syslogOperationsEntry 13 }
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syslogOperationsStatus OBJECT-TYPE
SYNTAX INTEGER {
unknown (1),
started (2),
suspended(3),
stopped (4)
}
MAX-ACCESS read-only
STATUS current
DESCRIPTION
"The status of the syslog application.
"
DEFVAL { unknown }
::= { syslogOperationsEntry 14 }
syslogPriorityTable OBJECT-TYPE
SYNTAX SEQUENCE OF SyslogPriorityEntry
MAX-ACCESS not-accessible
STATUS current
DESCRIPTION
"A table containing the relay configuration
parameters pertaining to the syslog applications
serviced by an SNMP agent.
"
::= { syslogObjects 3 }
syslogPriorityEntry OBJECT-TYPE
SYNTAX SyslogPriorityEntry
MAX-ACCESS not-accessible
STATUS current
DESCRIPTION
"The relay configuration parameters pertaining to
a syslog application.
"
INDEX { syslogControlIndex,
syslogPriorityFacility,
syslogPrioritySeverity }
::= { syslogPriorityTable 1 }
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SyslogPriorityEntry ::=
SEQUENCE {
syslogPriorityFacility
SyslogFacility,
syslogPrioritySeverity
SyslogSeverity,
syslogPriorityDescr
SnmpAdminString,
syslogPriorityDestinationIndex
Unsigned32,
syslogPriorityStorageType
StorageType,
syslogPriorityRowStatus
RowStatus
}
syslogPriorityFacility OBJECT-TYPE
SYNTAX SyslogFacility
MAX-ACCESS not-accessible
STATUS current
DESCRIPTION
"The facility value of this entry.
"
::= { syslogPriorityEntry 1 }
syslogPrioritySeverity OBJECT-TYPE
SYNTAX SyslogSeverity
MAX-ACCESS not-accessible
STATUS current
DESCRIPTION
"The severity value of this entry.
"
::= { syslogPriorityEntry 2 }
syslogPriorityDescr OBJECT-TYPE
SYNTAX SnmpAdminString
MAX-ACCESS read-create
STATUS current
DESCRIPTION
"A textual description of this priority entry.
"
::= { syslogPriorityEntry 3 }
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syslogPriorityDestinationIndex OBJECT-TYPE
SYNTAX Unsigned32
MAX-ACCESS read-create
STATUS current
DESCRIPTION
"On systems where the priority value in a syslog message
indicates the destination to which a syslog message
should be relayed, the value of this object will identify
the row in syslogRelayTable that contains
information about the relay destination to which
messages which have the priority value represented by
syslogPriorityFacility and syslogPrioritySeverity values
of this row will be relayed.
A value of 0 will indicate that there is no corresponding
row in the syslogRelayTable table.
"
::= { syslogPriorityEntry 4 }
syslogPriorityStorageType OBJECT-TYPE
SYNTAX StorageType
MAX-ACCESS read-create
STATUS current
DESCRIPTION
"This object defines whether the parameters defined in
this row are kept in volatile storage and lost upon
reboot or are backed up by non-volatile or permanent
storage.
Conceptual rows having the value 'permanent' need not
allow write-access to any columnar objects in the row.
"
DEFVAL { nonVolatile }
::= { syslogPriorityEntry 5 }
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syslogPriorityRowStatus OBJECT-TYPE
SYNTAX RowStatus
MAX-ACCESS read-create
STATUS current
DESCRIPTION
"This object is used to create, modify and delete rows
in the syslogPriorityTable.
The value of syslogPriorityDescr can be changed
when this object is in state ''active'' or in
''notInService''.
The other objects in a row can be modified only when the
value of this object in the corresponding conceptual row
is not ''active''. Thus to modify one or more of the
objects in this conceptual row,
a. change the row status to ''notInService'',
b. change the values of the row
c. change the row status to ''active''
The syslogPriorityRowStatus may be changed to
''active'' if all the managed objects in the conceptual
row with MAX-ACCESS read-create have been assigned valid
values.
"
::= { syslogPriorityEntry 6 }
syslogRelayTable OBJECT-TYPE
SYNTAX SEQUENCE OF SyslogRelayEntry
MAX-ACCESS not-accessible
STATUS current
DESCRIPTION
"A table containing information for the relay
destinations.
"
::= { syslogObjects 4 }
syslogRelayEntry OBJECT-TYPE
SYNTAX SyslogRelayEntry
MAX-ACCESS not-accessible
STATUS current
DESCRIPTION
"The information pertaining to a syslog message
relay destination.
"
INDEX { syslogRelayIndex }
::= { syslogRelayTable 1 }
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SyslogRelayEntry ::=
SEQUENCE {
syslogRelayIndex
Unsigned32,
syslogRelayDescr
SnmpAdminString,
syslogRelayAddrType
InetAddressType,
syslogRelayAddr
InetAddress,
syslogRelayPort
InetPortNumber,
syslogRelayEncapsulation
SyslogEncapsulation,
syslogRelayMsgsRelayed
Counter32,
syslogRelayCounterDiscontinuityTime
TimeStamp,
syslogRelayStorageType
StorageType,
syslogRelayRowStatus
RowStatus
}
syslogRelayIndex OBJECT-TYPE
SYNTAX Unsigned32 (1..2147483647)
MAX-ACCESS not-accessible
STATUS current
DESCRIPTION
"The Index that uniquely identifies the syslog
relay in the syslogRelayTable.
The value of the index for a syslog relay may
not be the same across system reboots. Users and
applications will need to determine the index of a
syslog relay after system reboots.
"
::= { syslogRelayEntry 1 }
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syslogRelayDescr OBJECT-TYPE
SYNTAX SnmpAdminString
MAX-ACCESS read-create
STATUS current
DESCRIPTION
"A user definable description of the syslog relay.
This description could be used by syslog management
applications e.g. in reports or in user interfaces.
"
::= { syslogRelayEntry 2 }
syslogRelayAddrType OBJECT-TYPE
SYNTAX InetAddressType
MAX-ACCESS read-create
STATUS current
DESCRIPTION
"The type of Internet address which follows
in syslogRelayAddr.
"
::= { syslogRelayEntry 3 }
syslogRelayAddr OBJECT-TYPE
SYNTAX InetAddress
MAX-ACCESS read-create
STATUS current
DESCRIPTION
"The address of the syslog relay .
The format of the address is specified by the
corresponding syslogRelayAddrType object.
If the address is specified in the DNS domain name format
[syslogRelayAddrType = 'dns'], the
corresponding IPv4 or IPv6 address obtained at the time
of the relay operation by the syslog application, will be
used.
"
::= { syslogRelayEntry 4 }
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syslogRelayPort OBJECT-TYPE
SYNTAX InetPortNumber
MAX-ACCESS read-create
STATUS current
DESCRIPTION
"The port number of the syslog relay.
"
::= { syslogRelayEntry 5 }
syslogRelayEncapsulation OBJECT-TYPE
SYNTAX SyslogEncapsulation
MAX-ACCESS read-create
STATUS current
DESCRIPTION
"The encapsulation that will be used for syslog messages
sent by the syslog sender to the relay destination.
"
::= { syslogRelayEntry 6 }
syslogRelayMsgsRelayed OBJECT-TYPE
SYNTAX Counter32
MAX-ACCESS read-only
STATUS current
DESCRIPTION
"The number of messages relayed by the syslog
relay to this relay destination.
Discontinuities in the value of this counter can
occur at re-initialization of the management system,
and at other times as indicated by the value of
syslogRelayCounterDiscontinuityTime.
"
REFERENCE
"The Syslog Protocol [RFCPROT] sec. 3.
"
::= { syslogRelayEntry 7 }
syslogRelayCounterDiscontinuityTime OBJECT-TYPE
SYNTAX TimeStamp
MAX-ACCESS read-only
STATUS current
DESCRIPTION
"The value of sysUpTime on the most recent occasion
at which counters with OID prefix
'syslogRelayMsgsRelayed' suffered a
discontinuity.
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If no such discontinuities have occurred since the
last re-initialization of the local management
subsystem, then this object will have a zero value.
"
::= { syslogRelayEntry 8 }
syslogRelayStorageType OBJECT-TYPE
SYNTAX StorageType
MAX-ACCESS read-create
STATUS current
DESCRIPTION
"This object defines whether the parameters defined in
this row are kept in volatile storage and lost upon
reboot or are backed up by non-volatile or permanent
storage.
Conceptual rows having the value 'permanent' need not
allow write-access to any columnar objects in the row.
"
DEFVAL { nonVolatile }
::= { syslogRelayEntry 9 }
syslogRelayRowStatus OBJECT-TYPE
SYNTAX RowStatus
MAX-ACCESS read-create
STATUS current
DESCRIPTION
"This object is used to create, modify and delete rows
in the syslogRelayTable.
The value of syslogRelayDescr can be changed
when this object is in state ''active'' or in
''notInService''.
The other objects in a row can be modified only when the
value of this object in the corresponding conceptual row
is not ''active''. Thus to modify one or more of the
objects in this conceptual row,
a. change the row status to ''notInService'',
b. change the values of the row
c. change the row status to ''active''
The syslogRelayRowStatus may be changed to
''active'' if all the managed objects in the conceptual
row with MAX-ACCESS read-create have been assigned valid
values.
"
::= { syslogRelayEntry 10 }
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syslogStatusChanged NOTIFICATION-TYPE
OBJECTS {
syslogControlDescr,
syslogControlRoles,
syslogControlBindAddrType,
syslogControlBindAddr,
syslogControlBindPort,
syslogControlEncapsulation,
syslogControlConfFileName,
syslogOperationsStatus
}
STATUS current
DESCRIPTION
"This notification is sent when a syslog application
changes state. For example when the syslog application
starts [syslogOperationsStatus is ''started'' ]
or the syslog application stops [syslogOperationsStatus
is ''suspended'' or ''stopped''].
The value of syslogOperationsStatus will be the
new status of the syslog application after the change.
The syslog application corresponding to the notification
will be identified by the syslogOperationsIndex
instance identifier of the objects in the notification.
"
::= { syslogNotifications 1 }
-- -------------------------------------------------------------
-- Conformance Information
-- -------------------------------------------------------------
syslogGroups OBJECT IDENTIFIER
::= { syslogConformance 1 }
syslogCompliances OBJECT IDENTIFIER
::= { syslogConformance 2 }
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-- -------------------------------------------------------------
-- units of conformance
-- -------------------------------------------------------------
syslogOperationsGroup OBJECT-GROUP
OBJECTS {
-- syslogOperationsIndex,
syslogOperationsMsgsReceived,
syslogOperationsMsgsTransmitted,
syslogOperationsMsgsRelayed,
syslogOperationsMsgsDropped,
syslogOperationsMsgsMalFormed,
syslogOperationsMsgsDiscarded,
syslogOperationsLastMsgRecdTime,
syslogOperationsLastMsgTransmittedTime,
syslogOperationsStartTime,
syslogOperationsLastError,
syslogOperationsLastErrorTime,
syslogOperationsRunIndex,
syslogOperationsCounterDiscontinuityTime,
syslogOperationsStatus
}
STATUS current
DESCRIPTION
"A collection of objects providing message related
statistics."
::= { syslogGroups 1}
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syslogControlGroup OBJECT-GROUP
OBJECTS {
syslogControlDescr,
syslogControlRoles,
syslogControlBindAddrType,
syslogControlBindAddr,
syslogControlEncapsulation,
syslogControlBindPort,
syslogControlMaxMessageSize,
syslogControlConfFileName,
syslogControlStorageType,
syslogControlRowStatus
}
STATUS current
DESCRIPTION
"A collection of objects representing the run time parameters
for the syslog applications.
"
::= { syslogGroups 2}
syslogPriorityGroup OBJECT-GROUP
OBJECTS {
syslogPriorityDescr,
syslogPriorityDestinationIndex,
syslogPriorityStorageType,
syslogPriorityRowStatus
}
STATUS current
DESCRIPTION
"A collection of objects representing the priority
groupings of syslog messages.
"
::= { syslogGroups 3}
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syslogRelayGroup OBJECT-GROUP
OBJECTS {
syslogRelayDescr,
syslogRelayAddrType,
syslogRelayAddr,
syslogRelayPort,
syslogRelayEncapsulation,
syslogRelayMsgsRelayed,
syslogRelayCounterDiscontinuityTime,
syslogRelayStorageType,
syslogRelayRowStatus
}
STATUS current
DESCRIPTION
"A collection of objects representing the relay
destinations for syslog messages.
"
::= { syslogGroups 4}
syslogNotificationGroup NOTIFICATION-GROUP
NOTIFICATIONS {
syslogStatusChanged
}
STATUS current
DESCRIPTION
"A collection of notifications about the operational
state of a syslog application.
"
::= { syslogGroups 5}
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-- -------------------------------------------------------------
-- compliance statements
-- -------------------------------------------------------------
syslogFullCompliance1 MODULE-COMPLIANCE
STATUS current
DESCRIPTION
"The compliance statement for SNMP entities which
implement the SYSLOG-MIB with support for writable
objects and notifications. Such an implementation can
be both monitored and configured via SNMP. It can
also send notifications about change in the
operational status of the syslog application.
"
MODULE -- this module
MANDATORY-GROUPS {
syslogNotificationGroup,
syslogOperationsGroup,
syslogControlGroup,
syslogPriorityGroup,
syslogRelayGroup
}
::= { syslogCompliances 1 }
syslogFullCompliance2 MODULE-COMPLIANCE
STATUS current
DESCRIPTION
"The compliance statement for SNMP entities which
implement the SYSLOG-MIB with support for writable
objects. Such an implementation can
be both monitored and configured via SNMP.
"
MODULE -- this module
MANDATORY-GROUPS {
syslogOperationsGroup,
syslogControlGroup,
syslogPriorityGroup,
syslogRelayGroup
}
::= { syslogCompliances 2 }
syslogFullCompliance3 MODULE-COMPLIANCE
STATUS current
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DESCRIPTION
"The compliance statement for SNMP entities which
implement the SYSLOG-MIB with support for writable
objects but without support for the objects in
syslogPriorityGroup and syslogRelayGroup. Such an
implementation can be both monitored and configured
via SNMP.
"
MODULE -- this module
MANDATORY-GROUPS {
syslogOperationsGroup,
syslogControlGroup
}
::= { syslogCompliances 3 }
syslogReadOnlyCompliance1 MODULE-COMPLIANCE
STATUS current
DESCRIPTION
"The compliance statement for SNMP entities which
implement the syslog MIB without support
for read-write (i.e. in read-only mode). It can
also send notifications about change in the
operational status of the syslog application.
"
MODULE -- this module
MANDATORY-GROUPS {
syslogNotificationGroup,
syslogOperationsGroup,
syslogControlGroup,
syslogPriorityGroup,
syslogRelayGroup
}
OBJECT syslogControlDescr
MIN-ACCESS read-only
DESCRIPTION
"Write access is not required.
"
OBJECT syslogControlRoles
MIN-ACCESS read-only
DESCRIPTION
"Write access is not required.
"
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OBJECT syslogControlBindAddrType
MIN-ACCESS read-only
DESCRIPTION
"Write access is not required.
"
OBJECT syslogControlBindAddr
MIN-ACCESS read-only
DESCRIPTION
"Write access is not required.
"
OBJECT syslogControlBindPort
MIN-ACCESS read-only
DESCRIPTION
"Write access is not required.
"
OBJECT syslogControlEncapsulation
MIN-ACCESS read-only
DESCRIPTION
"Write access is not required.
"
OBJECT syslogControlMaxMessageSize
MIN-ACCESS read-only
DESCRIPTION
"Write access is not required.
"
OBJECT syslogControlConfFileName
MIN-ACCESS read-only
DESCRIPTION
"Write access is not required.
"
OBJECT syslogControlStorageType
MIN-ACCESS read-only
DESCRIPTION
"Write access is not required.
"
OBJECT syslogControlRowStatus
MIN-ACCESS read-only
DESCRIPTION
"Write access is not required.
"
::= { syslogCompliances 4 }
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syslogReadOnlyCompliance2 MODULE-COMPLIANCE
STATUS current
DESCRIPTION
"The compliance statement for SNMP entities which
implement the syslog MIB without support
for read-write (i.e. in read-only mode).
"
MODULE -- this module
MANDATORY-GROUPS {
syslogOperationsGroup,
syslogControlGroup,
syslogPriorityGroup,
syslogRelayGroup
}
OBJECT syslogControlDescr
MIN-ACCESS read-only
DESCRIPTION
"Write access is not required.
"
OBJECT syslogControlRoles
MIN-ACCESS read-only
DESCRIPTION
"Write access is not required.
"
OBJECT syslogControlBindAddrType
MIN-ACCESS read-only
DESCRIPTION
"Write access is not required.
"
OBJECT syslogControlBindAddr
MIN-ACCESS read-only
DESCRIPTION
"Write access is not required.
"
OBJECT syslogControlBindPort
MIN-ACCESS read-only
DESCRIPTION
"Write access is not required.
"
OBJECT syslogControlEncapsulation
MIN-ACCESS read-only
DESCRIPTION
"Write access is not required.
"
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OBJECT syslogControlMaxMessageSize
MIN-ACCESS read-only
DESCRIPTION
"Write access is not required.
"
OBJECT syslogControlConfFileName
MIN-ACCESS read-only
DESCRIPTION
"Write access is not required.
"
OBJECT syslogControlStorageType
MIN-ACCESS read-only
DESCRIPTION
"Write access is not required.
"
OBJECT syslogControlRowStatus
MIN-ACCESS read-only
DESCRIPTION
"Write access is not required.
"
OBJECT syslogPriorityDescr
MIN-ACCESS read-only
DESCRIPTION
"Write access is not required.
"
OBJECT syslogPriorityDestinationIndex
MIN-ACCESS read-only
DESCRIPTION
"Write access is not required.
"
OBJECT syslogPriorityStorageType
MIN-ACCESS read-only
DESCRIPTION
"Write access is not required.
"
OBJECT syslogPriorityRowStatus
MIN-ACCESS read-only
DESCRIPTION
"Write access is not required.
"
OBJECT syslogRelayDescr
MIN-ACCESS read-only
DESCRIPTION
"Write access is not required.
"
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OBJECT syslogRelayAddrType
MIN-ACCESS read-only
DESCRIPTION
"Write access is not required.
"
OBJECT syslogRelayAddr
MIN-ACCESS read-only
DESCRIPTION
"Write access is not required.
"
OBJECT syslogRelayPort
MIN-ACCESS read-only
DESCRIPTION
"Write access is not required.
"
OBJECT syslogRelayEncapsulation
MIN-ACCESS read-only
DESCRIPTION
"Write access is not required.
"
OBJECT syslogRelayStorageType
MIN-ACCESS read-only
DESCRIPTION
"Write access is not required.
"
OBJECT syslogRelayRowStatus
MIN-ACCESS read-only
DESCRIPTION
"Write access is not required.
"
::= { syslogCompliances 5 }
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syslogReadOnlyCompliance3 MODULE-COMPLIANCE
STATUS current
DESCRIPTION
"The compliance statement for SNMP entities which
implement the syslog MIB without support
for read-write (i.e. in read-only mode) and without
support for the objects in syslogRelayGroup and
syslogPriorityGroup.
"
MODULE -- this module
MANDATORY-GROUPS {
syslogOperationsGroup,
syslogControlGroup
}
OBJECT syslogControlDescr
MIN-ACCESS read-only
DESCRIPTION
"Write access is not required.
"
OBJECT syslogControlRoles
MIN-ACCESS read-only
DESCRIPTION
"Write access is not required.
"
OBJECT syslogControlBindAddrType
MIN-ACCESS read-only
DESCRIPTION
"Write access is not required.
"
OBJECT syslogControlBindAddr
MIN-ACCESS read-only
DESCRIPTION
"Write access is not required.
"
OBJECT syslogControlBindPort
MIN-ACCESS read-only
DESCRIPTION
"Write access is not required.
"
OBJECT syslogControlEncapsulation
MIN-ACCESS read-only
DESCRIPTION
"Write access is not required.
"
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OBJECT syslogControlMaxMessageSize
MIN-ACCESS read-only
DESCRIPTION
"Write access is not required.
"
OBJECT syslogControlConfFileName
MIN-ACCESS read-only
DESCRIPTION
"Write access is not required.
"
OBJECT syslogControlStorageType
MIN-ACCESS read-only
DESCRIPTION
"Write access is not required.
"
OBJECT syslogControlRowStatus
MIN-ACCESS read-only
DESCRIPTION
"Write access is not required.
"
::= { syslogCompliances 6 }
syslogNotificationCompliance MODULE-COMPLIANCE
STATUS current
DESCRIPTION
"The compliance statement for SNMP entities
which implement the SYSLOG-MIB and support
only notifications about change in the
operational status of a syslog application.
"
MODULE -- this module
MANDATORY-GROUPS {
syslogNotificationGroup
}
::= { syslogCompliances 7 }
END
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5. Security Considerations
Syslog plays a very important role in the computer and network
security of an organization. SYSLOG-MIB defines several managed
objects that may be used to monitor, configure and control syslog
applications. As such improper manipulation of the objects
represented by this MIB may lead to an attack on an important
component of the computer and network security infrastructure. The
objects in syslogControlTable, syslogPriorityTable and
syslogRelayTable may be misconfigured to cause syslog messages to be
diverted or lost.
There are a number of management objects defined in this MIB module
with a MAX-ACCESS clause of read-write and/or read-create. Such
objects may be considered sensitive or vulnerable in some network
environments. The support for SET operations in a non-secure
environment without proper protection can have a negative effect on
network operations. These are the tables and objects and their
sensitivity/vulnerability:
o syslogControlTable: The objects in this table
describe the configuration of the syslog applications.
It may be misconfigured to start up a very large
number of syslog applications (processes) and deny the
system of its resources.
o syslogControlBindAddr: This object may be
misconfigured to bind syslog application to the wrong
address. This will cause messages to be lost.
o syslogControlBindPort : This object may be
misconfigured to bind syslog application to the wrong
service (port). This will cause messages to be lost.
o syslogControlMaxMessageSize: This message may be
misconfigured to set the wrong MaxMessageSize for the
syslog application. It may cause syslog messages to be
lost.
o syslogControlConfFileName: This object may be
misconfigured to start the syslog application with the
wrong (rogue) configuration.
o syslogControlStorageType: This object may be
misconfigured to set the wrong storage type. That may
cause confusion, operational errors and/or loss of
information.
o syslogPriorityTable: The objects in this table
link the priority value in a syslog message to the
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entry in the syslogRelayTable corresponding to the
syslog collector to which the syslog message should be
relayed. The table may be misconfigured to redirect
a syslog message to a potentially non-existent wrong
destination and/or to redirect a large number of messages
to a particular syslog collector.
o syslogRelayTable: The rows in this table represent
the relays to which syslog messages will be relayed,
depending on the priority value in the respective
syslog messages. The table may be misconfigured to
redirect a syslog message to a potentially non-existent
wrong destination and/or redirect a large number of
messages to a particular syslog collector.
Some of the readable objects in this MIB module (i.e., objects with a
MAX-ACCESS other than not-accessible) may be considered sensitive or
vulnerable in some network environments. It is thus important to
control even GET and/or NOTIFY access to these objects and possibly
to even encrypt the values of these objects when sending them over
the network via SNMP. These are the tables and objects and their
sensitivity/vulnerability:
o syslogOperationsTable: Objects in this table carry
sensitive information. The counters may reveal
information about the deployment and effectiveness of
the relevant security systems. The counters may be
analyzed to tell whether the security systems are able
to detect an event or not.
o syslogOperationsLastError: This object may contain
sensitive information e.g. user-id, password etc.
depending on the implementation of the syslog application.
It may reveal details about the syslog implementation
itself, e.g. version, OS etc.
o syslogPriorityTable: Objects in this table carry
sensitive information. The objects reveal how the
syslog messages are grouped, relayed and/or stored.
o syslogRelayTable: Objects in this table carry sensitive
information. The objects reveal the destination of
syslog messages.
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SNMP versions prior to SNMPv3 did not include adequate security.
Even if the network itself is secure (for example by using IPsec),
even then, there is no control as to who on the secure network is
allowed to access and GET/SET (read/change/create/delete) the objects
in this MIB module.
It is RECOMMENDED that implementers consider the security features as
provided by the SNMPv3 framework (see [RFC3410], section 8),
including full support for the SNMPv3 cryptographic mechanisms (for
authentication and privacy).
Further, deployment of SNMP versions prior to SNMPv3 is NOT
RECOMMENDED. Instead, it is RECOMMENDED to deploy SNMPv3 and to
enable cryptographic security. It is then a customer/operator
responsibility to ensure that the SNMP application giving access to
an instance of this MIB module is properly configured to give access
to the objects only to those principals (users) that have legitimate
rights to indeed GET or SET (change/create/delete) them.
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6. IANA Considerations
The MIB modules in this document use the following IANA-assigned
OBJECT IDENTIFIER values recorded in the SMI Numbers registry:
Descriptor OBJECT IDENTIFIER value
---------- -----------------------
syslogMIB { mib-2 YYYY }
IANA Reg.: Please assign a value under the 'mib-2' subtree
for the 'syslogMIB' MODULE-IDENTITY and record
the assignment in the SMI Numbers registry.
RFC Ed.: When the above assignments have been made, please
- remove the above note
- replace "YYYY" here with the assigned values and
- remove this note.
7. References
7.1 Normative References
[RFC2119] Bradner, S., "Key words for use in RFCs to Indicate
Requirements Levels", BCP 14, RFC 2119, March 1997.
[RFC2578] McCloghrie, K., Perkins, D., Schoenwaelder, J., Case, J.,
Rose, M., and S. Waldbusser, "Structure of Management
Information Version 2 (SMIv2)", STD 58, RFC 2578,
April 1999
[RFC2579] McCloghrie, K., Perkins, D., Schoenwaelder, J., Case, J.,
Rose, M., and S. Waldbusser, "Textual Conventions for
SMIv2", STD 58, RFC 2579, April 1999
[RFC2580] McCloghrie, K., Perkins, D., Schoenwaelder, J., Case, J.,
Rose, M., and S. Waldbusser, "Conformance Statements for
SMIv2", STD 58, RFC 2580, April 1999
[RFC3411] Harrington, D., Presuhn, R. and B. Wijnen, "An Architecture
for Describing Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP)
Management Frameworks", STD 62, RFC 3411, December 2002.
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[RFC4001] Daniele, M., Haberman, B., Routhier, S., and Schoenwaelder,
J., "Textual Conventions for Internet Network Addresses",
RFC 4001, February 2005.
[RFCPROT] Gerhards, R., "The syslog Protocol",
draft-ietf-syslog-protocol-21.txt, work in progress,
June 2006.
[RFCUDPX] Okmianski, A., "Transmission of syslog messages over UDP",
draft-ietf-syslog-transport-udp-09.txt work in progress,
May 2006.
[RFCTLSX] Miao, F., and Yuzhi, M., "TLS Transport Mapping for Syslog",
draft-ietf-syslog-transport-tls-10.txt, work in progress,
December 2006.
[RFC3195] New, D., and Rose, M., "Reliable Delivery for syslog",
RFC 3195, November 2001
7.2 Informative References
[RFC3410] Case, J., Mundy, R., Partain, D., and B. Stewart,
"Introduction and Applicability Statements for the
Internet-Standard Management Framework", RFC 3410,
December 2002.
[RFC2790] Waldbusser, S., and Grillo, P., "Host Resources MIB",
RFC 2790, March 2000.
Note: The strings "PROT", "UDPX" and "TLSX" in this
document will be replaced by the RFC numbers assigned
to the latest versions of
draft-ietf-syslog-protocol-*.txt,
draft-ietf-syslog-transport-udp-*.txt and
draft-ietf-syslog-transport-tls-*.txt,
respectively, and this note will be removed.
8. Acknowledgments
The initial draft of this document was authored by Bruno Pape.
The authors would like to thank Mark Ellison, David Harrington,
Mike MacFaden, Dave T Perkins, Tom Petch, Juergen Schoenwaelder,
Rohit M, Bert Wijnen and members of the WIDE-netman group for
their comments and suggestions.
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9. Author's Addresses
Glenn Mansfield Keeni
Cyber Solutions Inc.
6-6-3 Minami Yoshinari
Aoba-ku, Sendai 989-3204
Japan
Phone: +81-22-303-4012
EMail: glenn@cysols.com
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APPENDIX
This section documents the development of the draft. It will be
deleted when the draft becomes an RFC.
Revision History:
Changes from draft-ietf-syslog-device-mib-15.txt
to draft-ietf-syslog-device-mib-16.txt
1. The definitions of the TEXTUAL-CONVENTIONS SyslogFacility and
SyslogSeverity are deleted. These are now imported from
SYSLOG-TC-MIB
2. Two tables
syslogPriorityTable and
syslogRelayTable
have been added.
3. The compliance statements corresponding the new tables
are added.
4. The Security considerations corresponding to the new
yables are added.
Changes from draft-ietf-syslog-device-mib-14.txt
to draft-ietf-syslog-device-mib-15.txt
1. Revised syslogControlService to represent only a port number,
and not a service name
Renamed syslogControlService to syslogControlBindPort
2. Eliminated "entity" wording and used "syslog application".
3. The default objects are removed.
+--syslogSystem(1)
| +-- syslogDefaultService(1)
| +-- syslogDefaultEncapsulation(2)
and the corresponding conformance group
+--syslogGroups(1)
| +--syslogDefaultGroup(1)
4. Descriptions of objects that had references to the default
objects are revised.
5. The Textual Conventions for SyslogSeverity and SyslogFacility
are put back. ( This did not happen in -14.txt though it is
listed in the changes.)
6. The references in the MIB module have been revised to make
the MIB module references independent of the container
document.
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7. Noted that the strings "PROT", "UDPX" and "TLSX" in this
document will be replaced by the respective RFC numbers
assigned to the corresponding documents.
Changes from draft-ietf-syslog-device-mib-13.txt
to draft-ietf-syslog-device-mib-14.txt
1. Changed the object hierarchy and naming from
|
+--syslogObjects(1)
| |
| +--syslogSystem(1)
| |
| +--syslogEntity(2)
| |
| +--syslogEntityControlTable(1)
| |
| +--syslogEntityOperationsTable(2)
to
|
+--syslogObjects(1)
| |
| +--syslogSystem(1)
| |
| +--syslogControlTable(2)
| |
| +--syslogOperationsTable(3)
|
2. Removed the reference to UDP transport in section 2.
3. Put back SyslogSeverity and SyslogFacility TCs.
4. Revised the DESCRIPTION of syslogOperationsMsgsReceived
5. Added syslogOperationsMsgsTransmitted
6. Revised the DESCRIPTION of syslogOperationsLastMsgRecdTime
7. Renamed syslogOperationsReference to syslogOperationsRunIndex
Changes from draft-ietf-syslog-device-mib-12.txt
to draft-ietf-syslog-device-mib-13.txt
1. Removed reference to RFC3164.
2. Added TC SyslogEncapsulation
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removed syslogDefaultTransportDomain,
syslogEntityControlTransportDomain
Added syslogDefaultEncapsulation,
syslogEntityControlEncapsulation
3. Modified the DESCRIPTION clauses for
syslogEntityControlMaxMessageSize,
syslogEntityOperationsMsgsReceived,
syslogEntityOperationsMsgsRelayed,
syslogEntityOperationsMsgsIllFormed,
syslogEntityOperationsMsgsIgnored,
4. Changed name
from syslogEntityOperationsMsgsIllFormed
to syslogEntityOperationsMsgsMalFormed
from syslogEntityOperationsMsgsIgnored
to syslogEntityOperationsMsgsDiscarded
5. Revised figure 1.
6. Added MO syslogEntityControlRoles
7. renamed syslogEntityControlStatus to
syslogEntityOperationsStatus
moved this object from
syslogEntityControlEntry to
syslogEntityOperationsEntry
8. Removed MOs syslogDefaultFacility
syslogDefaultSeverity
9. Removed TCs SyslogFacility
SyslogSeverity
10. Added the TC SyslogRoles
11. Added the MO syslogEntityControlRoles
12. Replaced references to "local time" by "value
of sysUpTime"
13. Revised the DESCRIPTION syslogEntityStatusChange
14. Revised the DESCRIPTION of the MOs to cover the
exception cases.
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15. Revised the text to clear ambiguities about the
role of the "syslog entity".
16. Editorial nits.
Changes from draft-ietf-syslog-device-mib-11.txt
to draft-ietf-syslog-device-mib-12.txt
1. Added text in introduction and in the DESCRIPTION of the MIB
module to explain the terminology used in the document.
Ref. Comment 1.1, 1.2, 1.3, 1.4.
2. Changed "group" to "subtree" in Section 3 (The MIB Design).
Ref. Comment 1.5
3. Removed enumeration "other" from the enumeration for
SyslogSeverity. This case does not arise.
Ref. Comment 1.6
4. Revised DESCRIPTION of syslogEntityControlStorageType
Ref. comment 2.3
5. Revised DESCRIPTION of syslogEntityStatusChanged
Ref. Comment 2.4
6. Updated the boilerplate for the Copyright notice.
Ref. Comment 2.7
7. Changed "should" to "SHOULD" in DESCRIPTION of
syslogEntityOperationsReference
Ref. Comment 3.2
8. Changed RFCPROT to "[RFCPROT]" in REFERENCE of
syslogDefaultTransportDomain
Changes from draft-ietf-syslog-device-mib-9.txt
to draft-ietf-syslog-device-mib-11.txt
[Note: The changes to the mib-9.txt and mib-10.txt are
consolidated below.]
1. Namings changed:
Page-8.
changed the duplicate instances of auth and cron to
auth1, auth2, cron1, cron2
changed: SyslDevOpsEntry -> SyslogEntityOperationsEntry
syslEntOpsEntry -> syslogEntityOperationsEntry
SyslDevCtlEntry -> SyslogEntityControlEntry
syslEntCtlEntry -> syslogEntityControlEntry
syslEntOpsTable -> syslogEntityOperationsTable
syslogDevice -> syslogDevice
syslEntCtlProcDescr -> syslogEntityControlDescr
syslEntOpsLastMsgDeliveredTime ->
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syslogEntityOperationsLastMsgTransmittedTime.
syslDevOpsGroup -> syslogEntityOperationsGroup
2. Added TRANSPORT-ADDRESS-MIB[RFC3419] to the text on section 3
(and 7.1 Normative References).
3. MIB.
Fixed MIB nits.
4. Added text about the expected persistency behaviour of the
read-write objects in the corresponding DESCRIPTION clauses.
syslogDefaultTransport
syslogDefaultService
syslogDefaultFacility
syslogDefaultSeverity
5. Replaced
syslogDefaultTransport OBJECT-TYPE
SYNTAX TransportAddressType
and
syslEntCtlTransport OBJECT-TYPE
SYNTAX TransportAddressType
by
syslogDefaultTransportDomain OBJECT-TYPE
SYNTAX TransportDomain
syslogEntityControlTransportDomain OBJECT-TYPE
SYNTAX TransportDomain
6. Changed the ordering of
syslEntOpsTable ::= { syslogDevice 1 }
syslEntCtlTable ::= { syslogDevice 2 }
to
syslogEntityControlTable ::= { syslogEntity 1 }
syslogEntityOperationsTable ::= { syslogEntity 2 }
7. The tree structure is changed
from
syslogSystem OBJECT IDENTIFIER
::= { syslogMIB 1 }
syslogDevice OBJECT IDENTIFIER
::= { syslogMIB 2 }
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to,
syslogObjects OBJECT IDENTIFIER
::= { syslogMIB 1 }
syslogSystem OBJECT IDENTIFIER
::= { syslogObjects 1 }
syslogEntity OBJECT IDENTIFIER
::= { syslogObjects 2 }
8. syslogEntityOperationsEntry AUGMENTS { syslogEntityControlEntry }
9. Added
syslogEntityOperationsCounterDiscontinuityTime OBJECT-TYPE
to indicate whether
'syslogEntityOperationsMsgsReceived' or
'syslogEntityOperationsMsgsRelayed' or
'syslogEntityOperationsMsgsDropped' or
'syslogEntityOperationsMsgsIllFormed' or
'syslogEntityOperationsMsgsIgnored' suffered a
discontinuity.
Revised the DESCRIPTION of the above Objects.
10. Changed all references of "syslog process", "syslog device" to
"syslog entity".
11. Changed syntax of syslogEntityOperationsReference from
syslEntOpsReference OBJECT-TYPE
SYNTAX Integer32
to
syslogEntityOperationsReference OBJECT-TYPE
SYNTAX Integer32 (0..2147483647)
12. Revised the DESCRIPTION clauses of
syslogEntityControlTable
syslogEntityOperationsReference
syslogEntityControlBindAddrType
syslogEntityControlBindAddr
syslogEntityControlTransportDomain
syslogEntityControlService
syslogEntityControlConfFileName
syslogEntityControlStatus
syslogEntityControlRowStatus
syslogEntityOperationsTable
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syslogEntityControlTable
syslogEntityOperationsMsgsDropped
syslogEntityOperationsReference
syslogEntityControlEntry
13. Added DEFVAL { nonVolatile } to syslogEntityControlStorageType
14. Merged the NOTIFICATIONs
syslEntStarted
syslEntStopped
into syslogEntityStatusChanged
15. Overhauled the syslogCompliance tree
16. idnits fixed.
17. IANA considerations section revised.
17. Labels and Captions in figure 1 are revised.
18. Revised DESCRIPTION clauses of
SyslogSeverity
syslogDefaultFacility
syslogDefaultSeverity
19. syslogDefaultMaxMessageSize is deleted
revised the DESCRIPTION of syslogEntityControlMaxMessageSize
20. editorial fixes
The changes upto draft-ietf-syslog-device-mib-9.txt are documented
below in the form of MIB Revision clauses.
REVISION "200609040000Z" -- 9th September 2006
DESCRIPTION
"
o The draft has been aligned with the current
standards track documents syslog-protocol-17.txt
and syslog-transport-udp-07.txt: the REFERNCE
clauses have changed.
o The TEXTUAL-CONVENTION SyslogTransport has been
replaced by the TransportAddressType.
o The TEXTUAL-CONVENTION SyslogFacility and
SyslogSeverity have been aligned with
syslog-protocol-17.txt
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o A paragraph has been added to list the related
MIBs from which MOS and TEXTUAL-CONVENTIONs have
been imported.
o The target of this MIB is now called a syslog
entity. [ Earlier it was referred to as a syslog
device.] The prefix syslDev has been changed to
syslEnt
o The DEFVALS have been aligned with the reference
documents.
o The REFERENCE section has been updated.
o The OID for syslogConformance has been changed
from 4 to 3.
"
REVISION "200607250000Z" -- 25th July 2006
DESCRIPTION
"the internet draft's version number has
been changed (7->8).
"
REVISION "200511250000Z" -- 25th November 2005
DESCRIPTION
"A near complete overhaul of the MIB and the document.
The BSD-syslog flavor has been abandoned in favor of a
more generic syslog-protocol document that is under
preparation.
TBD. The reference clauses need to be redone once the
new syslog document is ready.
List of authors changed. Original draft author Bruno
Pape is acknowledged in the Acknowledgments section.
Editorial nits fixed.
"
REVISION "200406160000Z" -- Mon Feb 16 00:00 GMT 2004
DESCRIPTION
"Major change.
The configuration parts have been removed.
Updated the description clauses.
Editorial nits fixed.
"
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REVISION "200306250000Z" -- Wed June 25 00:00 GMT 2003
DESCRIPTION
"Changed the type of
syslogProcLastError SnmpAdminString,
from Integer32.
DEFVAL { 0 ] is added to syslogAllowedHostsMaskLen
MO name changed from
syslogCtlSelectionHostname to syslogCtlSelectionHostName
Updated the description clauses.
Fixed nits pointed out in Bert's mails of 20030319 and
revised the document wrt the guidelines in
draft-ietf-ops-mib-review-guidelines-01.txt
Editorial nits fixed.
"
REVISION "200303030000Z" -- Mon March 03 00:00 GMT 2003
DESCRIPTION
"Fixing of nits in descriptions, addition of references,
addition of the following MOs
syslogProcMsgsIllFormed Counter32,
syslogProcStartTime TimeStamp,
syslogProcLastError Integer32,
syslogProcLastErrorTime TimeStamp,
syslDevCtlStorageType StorageType,
syslogCtlFwdActionSrcAddrType InetAddressType,
syslogCtlFwdActionSrcAddr InetAddress,
added enumeration ''suspended(2)'' to
syslDevCtlStatus.
"
REVISION "200212252343Z" -- Wed December 25 23:43 GMT 2002
DESCRIPTION
"Radical revision of the MIB structure and design."
REVISION "200206061841Z" -- Thu Jun 6 18:41 GMT 2002
DESCRIPTION
"The initial version of this MIB module."
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