Tom, Apologies for the delay in responding. > I have had a look at the syslog MIB, and am confused, at a fairly fundamental > level, about the relationship of the MIB to the other documents, RFC3164 and > syslog-protocol. The last two have a common framework/architecture, spelt out > at the beginning of each, with a common terminology of device, relay, > collector, > server. The MIB is different. > > Thus, it is a device MIB (not a protocol MIB) (quoting) 'to monitor a group of > syslog devices' and 'One or more syslog devices which may be on the same > host'. > '"facilities" generate messages indicating their own status or the occurance > of > events. These messages are handled by what has come to be known as the syslog > process or device' I agree with you that the definition of "syslog device" is NOT consistent with RFC3164 and syslog-protocol-17. I will fix this in the next draft. Thanks for pointing that out. As far as management is concerned the syslog daemon [receiver/relay] is an application ( doing a specific task viz. receiving and forwarding syslog messages). There may be several syslog daemons on a host. That has been provisioned for in the MIB. > Which leaves me with the impression of a loosely-coupled system of hosts > communicating via proprietary protocols with multiple instances of a syslog > daemon per host forwarding messages onward. Really? There is nothing that prohibits one from using multiple syslog daemons. > could be but I think I am> lost here and that the introduction should be > recast > in the language of RFC3164/syslog-protocol (even if it is intending to convey > the > above). Right. I will find a better name for the entity that we intend to manage using the MIB and of course must not conflict with the terms used in 3164/syslog-protocol. In the absence of a better name I may use the term "entity" itself. It receives, stores and forwards syslog messages. Let me know if I have missed out something.
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