Re: [netmod] draft-ietf-netmod-syslog-model-23

["Clyde Wildes (cwildes)" <[e-mail]>]

Bob,

I will add your wording in the next revision.

Thanks,

Clyde

From: Bob Harold <[e-mail]>
Date: Monday, March 5, 2018 at 11:06 AM
To: Clyde Wildes <[e-mail]>
Cc: "[e-mail]" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: [netmod] draft-ietf-netmod-syslog-model-23


On Fri, Mar 2, 2018 at 5:13 PM, Clyde Wildes (cwildes) <[e-mail]<mailto:[e-mail]>> wrote:
Bob,

Syslog message severity is set in RFC 5424 Table 2. The model in draft-ietf-netmod-syslog-model-23 conforms to that specification. A lower number means higher severity.


Thanks.  Can we add "A lower number means higher severity" to make it clear?

In Section "4.1<https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ietf-netmod-syslog-model-23#section-4.1>. The ietf-syslog Module"
on page 11, cna we change:

From:


     typedef syslog-severity {

       type enumeration {

         enum "emergency" {

           value 0;

           description



Change to:



     typedef syslog-severity {

       description

         "Note that a lower value is a higher severity.

          Comparisons of equal-or-higher security mean equal or lower numeric value"

       type enumeration {

         enum "emergency" {

           value 0;

           description

--
Bob Harold


The severity-filter specifies that “all messages of the specified severity and greater match” and therefore will be selected. This conforms to the way that many vendors that we evaluated perform syslog message severity match selection.

Juniper Example:
https://www.juniper.net/documentation/en_US/junos12.3/topics/task/configuration/syslog-single-chassis-facility-severity-messages-specifying.html

“Messages from the facility that are rated at that level or higher are logged to the destination”

Linux rsyslogd Example:
http://www.rsyslog.com/doc/v8-stable/configuration/filters.html#selectors

“The behavior of the original BSD syslogd is that all messages of the specified priority and higher are logged according to the given action. Rsyslogd behaves the same…”

Changing the table to match higher severity to higher number means that we would not conform the RFC 5424.

Note: I do see a typo in the description for severity-filter (the word “use” is missing):

else compare message severity with the specified severity
          according to the default compare rule (all messages of the
          specified severity and greater match) or if the
          select-adv-compare feature is present, the advance-compare
          rule.

should be:

else compare message severity with the specified severity
          according to the default compare rule (all messages of the
          specified severity and greater match) or if the
          select-adv-compare feature is present, use the advance-compare
          rule.

Thanks,

Clyde

From: netmod <[e-mail]<mailto:[e-mail]>> on behalf of Bob Harold <[e-mail]<mailto:[e-mail]>>
Date: Friday, March 2, 2018 at 12:33 PM
To: "[e-mail]<mailto:[e-mail]>" <[e-mail]<mailto:[e-mail]>>
Subject: [netmod] draft-ietf-netmod-syslog-model-23

Sorry for being late to the discussion - just joined this group.

Can we have "higher severity" match "higher number" in the enumerated values, to avoid confusion?

In section 4.1.  The ietf-syslog Module
on Page 11

typedef syslog-severity {

-- should be in the order:
debug=0
emergency=7

because "severity-filter" uses "equals-or-higher" which means "higher severity" but should also mean "higher number" to avoid confusion.
--
Bob Harold