System Identity - two part name?

RouterOS General
1

When specifying a system identity with a singe word, for example: router, it does not show up in remote syslogs. But when I type an identity that contains one space, example: Firstname Lastname the “Lastname” shows up in the remote syslog.

Is this a feature or a bug?

Example 1 from syslog-ng: identity is set to “Uto Logi”:
Jun 15 10:54:53 192.168.10.10 Logi [uto_logi]: defconf assigned 192.168.88.219 to B4:82:FE:E5:93:7B

Example 2 from syslog-ng: identity set to “Uto”:
Jun 15 10:55:55 192.168.10.10 [uto_logi]: defconf assigned 192.168.88.219 to B4:82:FE:E5:93:7B

2

Are you sure that is the problem of Mikrotik ? Just asking … no offence. You are showing logs from syslog-ng and maybe it is problem of syslog-ng.
Have you checked non Mikrotik devices with two-word names ?

3

I use rsyslog and it works OK for me, both for single word and multi word names (all words are shown).
Did you use the BSD syslog option?

4

You are right that it might be also the syslog-ng cutting out the first part of the name/identity. I’m unable to debug that.

When unchecking BSD option the indentity is not shown at all on syslog.

5

Try it with rsyslog, e.g. a Raspberry Pi, to see if that works…

6

Works for me with Syslog-NG out of the box, I’m sending traffic via IPv6 with BSD-Syslog option. It looks like this in my NMS:
Forum_MikroTik_Syslog-Capturing-Hostname_1.png

7

Changed to rsyslog and now it’s working fine. Sorry and thank you :slight_smile: