topic Re: PIX/ASA Syslog using TCP in Network Security

PIX/ASA Syslog using TCP

rlourenco — Fri, 21 Feb 2020 09:28:19 GMT

Hi,

Reading the PIX documentation (v7.2) I can find the following regarding logging host configuration: " If you specify TCP, the security appliance discovers when the syslog server fails and discontinues sending logs"

Will the firewall recover syslog service (i.e. restarts sending logs) after the server becomes online again? or manual intervention will be needed?

Thanks in advance.

Ricardo

Re: PIX/ASA Syslog using TCP

kofflerg — Fri, 06 Apr 2007 20:58:28 GMT

In my experience, it won't recover, but that was with 7.0, I think. I doubt that it's changed, but it was enough to prevent using TCP logging for us. Some drops were better than no logging...however, it is possible to make the firewall stop passing traffic if logging fails, I believe, so that could be used as an avenue toward recovery, if the tradeoff is acceptable.

George