Textual Conventions for Syslog Management
RFC 5427
Document | Type | RFC - Proposed Standard (March 2009; No errata) | |
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Author | Glenn Mansfield | ||
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Network Working Group G. Keeni Request for Comments: 5427 Cyber Solutions Inc. Category: Standards Track March 2009 Textual Conventions for Syslog Management Status of This Memo This document specifies an Internet standards track protocol for the Internet community, and requests discussion and suggestions for improvements. Please refer to the current edition of the "Internet Official Protocol Standards" (STD 1) for the standardization state and status of this protocol. Distribution of this memo is unlimited. Copyright Notice Copyright (c) 2009 IETF Trust and the persons identified as the document authors. All rights reserved. This document is subject to BCP 78 and the IETF Trust's Legal Provisions Relating to IETF Documents in effect on the date of publication of this document (http://trustee.ietf.org/license-info). Please review these documents carefully, as they describe your rights and restrictions with respect to this document. This document may contain material from IETF Documents or IETF Contributions published or made publicly available before November 10, 2008. The person(s) controlling the copyright in some of this material may not have granted the IETF Trust the right to allow modifications of such material outside the IETF Standards Process. Without obtaining an adequate license from the person(s) controlling the copyright in such materials, this document may not be modified outside the IETF Standards Process, and derivative works of it may not be created outside the IETF Standards Process, except to format it for publication as an RFC or to translate it into languages other than English. Abstract This MIB module defines textual conventions to represent Facility and Severity information commonly used in syslog messages. The intent is that these textual conventions will be imported and used in MIB modules that would otherwise define their own representations. Keeni Standards Track [Page 1] RFC 5427 Syslog MIB-TC March 2009 Table of Contents 1. The Internet-Standard Management Framework ......................2 2. Background ......................................................2 3. The Syslog Textual Conventions MIB ..............................3 4. Security Considerations .........................................7 5. IANA Considerations .............................................7 6. References ......................................................8 6.1. Normative References .......................................8 6.2. Informative References .....................................8 7. Acknowledgments .................................................8 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]. 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 have come to be known as syslog messages. A syslog message in general will contain among other things a code representing the Facility that generated the message and a code representing the Severity of the message. The Facility and the Severity codes are commonly used to categorize and select received syslog messages for processing and display. The Facility codes have been useful in qualifying the originator of the content of the messages but in some cases they are not specific enough to explicitly identify the originator. Implementations of the syslog protocol [RFC5424] that contain structured data elements (SDEs) should use these SDEs to clarify the entity that originated the content of the message. This document defines a set of textual conventions (TCs) that can be used to represent Facility and Severity codes commonly used in syslog messages. Keeni Standards Track [Page 2] RFC 5427 Syslog MIB-TC March 2009 The key words "MUST", "MUST NOT", "REQUIRED", "SHALL", "SHALL NOT",Show full document text