Element: patterns

Location

/patterndb/ruleset/patterns

Description

A container element. A <patterns> element may contain any number of `elements.

Attributes

N/A

Children

• pattern: The name of the application — syslog-ng matches this value to the ${PROGRAM} header of the syslog message to find the rulesets applicable to the syslog message.

  Specifying multiple patterns is useful if two or more applications have different names (that is, different ${PROGRAM} fields), but otherwise send identical log messages.

  It is not necessary to use multiple patterns if only the end of the ${PROGRAM} fields is different, use only the beginning of the ${PROGRAM} field as the pattern. For example, the Postfix email server sends messages using different process names, but all of them begin with the postfix string.

  You can also use parsers in the program pattern if needed, and use the parsed results later. For example: `stfix\@ESTRING:.postfix.component:[@»

  Note

  If the `element of a ruleset is not specified, AxoSyslog will use this ruleset as a fallback ruleset: it will apply the ruleset to messages that have an empty PROGRAM header, or if none of the program patterns matched the PROGRAM header of the incoming message.

Example

   <patterns>
        <pattern>firstapplication</pattern>
        <pattern>otherapplication</pattern>
    </patterns>

Using parsers in the program pattern:

   <pattern>postfix\@ESTRING:.postfix.component:[@</pattern>