TCP Syslog protocol configuration options

Configure a TCP Syslog protocol log source to receive syslog events from network devices that support Syslog event over TCP for default listener syslog port 514.

The TCP Syslog protocol is a passive inbound protocol. The log source creates a listen port for incoming Syslog events.

You can restart event collection services after deployment of new jar or rpm file by entering the following command:
systemctl restart ecs-ec-ingress
The following table describes the log source configuration parameters for the TCP Syslog protocol:
Table 1. TCP Syslog protocol parameters
Parameter Description
Log Source Identifier An IP address or hostname to identify the log source.
Incoming Payload Encoding An option to decode the incoming payload based on type of encoding from source end. The following options are available.
  • Big5: Chinese character encoding for Traditional Chinese used in Taiwan and Hong Kong.
  • Big5-HKSCS: Extension of Big5 with additional characters for Hong Kong Supplementary Character Set.
  • CESU-8: Compatibility encoding of UTF-16 using 8-bit units (not standard UTF-8).
  • EUC-JP: Extended Unix Code for Japanese, supporting multiple Japanese character sets.
  • EUC-KR: Extended Unix Code for Korean, commonly used on Unix systems.
  • GB2312: Simplified Chinese character encoding used in mainland China.
  • GB18030: Superset of GB2312 and GBK supporting all Unicode characters.
  • GBK: Extended GB2312 encoding supporting additional Chinese characters.
  • hp-roman8: Hewlett-Packard's 8-bit encoding for Western European languages.
  • IBM-Thai: IBM code page for Thai character support.
  • ISO-8859-1: Western European Latin-1 encoding, common on the web.
  • ISO-8859-2: Latin-2 encoding for Central and Eastern European languages.
  • JIS_X0201: Japanese single-byte character encoding, part of JIS standards.
  • KOI8-R: Cyrillic encoding used in Russian systems (KOI8 = Kod Obmena Informatsiey).
  • PTCP154: Cyrillic encoding for Asian republics like Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan.
  • Shift_JIS: Character encoding for Japanese combining single and double-byte characters.
  • TIS-620: Thai character set defined by Thai Industrial Standards Institute.
  • US-ASCII: 7-bit American Standard Code for Information Interchange.
  • UTF-8: Variable-width Unicode encoding, widely used on the web.
  • UTF-16: Variable-width Unicode encoding using 2 or 4 bytes per character
  • UTF-32: Fixed-width Unicode encoding using 4 bytes per character.
  • windows-1252: Western European Windows code page (an extension of ISO-8859-1).
  • x-MacRoman: Macintosh Roman encoding for Western European languages.
  • x-IBM949: IBM’s version of Korean character encoding.
  • x-ISCII91: Indian Script Code for Information Interchange (supports multiple Indian scripts).
  • x-windows-50220: Microsoft implementation of ISO-2022-JP for Japanese emails.
  • x-Big5-HKSCS-2001: Big5-HKSCS encoding updated for the 2001 Hong Kong character set.
  • x-Big5-Solaris: Big5 variant used in Solaris systems.
  • x-COMPOUND_TEXT: X11 compound text encoding for multilingual text.
  • x-euc-jp-linux: EUC-JP encoding variant used on Linux systems.
  • x-EUC-TW: Extended Unix Code for Traditional Chinese used in Taiwan.
  • x-eucJP-Open: Open-source EUC-JP variant.
  • x-IBM-udcJP: IBM's user-defined character encoding for Japanese.
  • x-IBM300: IBM mainframe encoding for Japanese Katakana.
  • x-IBM300A: Alternate version of IBM300.
  • x-IBM301: IBM code page for Japanese scripts.
  • x-IBM420S: IBM code page for Arabic (alternate form).
  • x-IBM720: IBM Arabic code page used in DOS systems.
  • x-IBM737: Greek character set used by IBM DOS.
  • x-IBM808: Cyrillic code page used in IBM systems.
  • x-IBM833: IBM code page for Japanese scripts.
  • x-IBM834: Another IBM Japanese encoding.
  • x-IBM835: IBM Korean encoding page.
  • x-IBM836: IBM code page for Korean Hangul characters.
  • x-IBM837: IBM Korean encoding with extensions.
  • x-IBM856: Hebrew encoding for DOS.
  • x-IBM859: Western European DOS encoding.
  • x-IBM864S: IBM Arabic encoding with special characters.
  • x-IBM867: IBM Arabic-compatible DOS code page.
  • x-IBM874: IBM Thai encoding for DOS/Windows systems.
  • x-IBM875: Greek character set by IBM.
  • x-IBM897: IBM encoding for Japanese Roman characters.
  • x-IBM921: Baltic encoding used in IBM systems.
  • x-IBM922: IBM encoding for Estonian, Latvian, and Lithuanian.
  • x-IBM924_LF: IBM encoding for Latin-9 with LF line endings.
  • x-IBM927: IBM encoding for Traditional Chinese.
  • x-IBM930: IBM encoding combining single-byte and double-byte for Japanese.
  • x-IBM930A: Alternate of IBM930.
  • x-IBM933: IBM code page for Korean on mainframes.
  • x-IBM935: Simplified Chinese encoding on IBM mainframes.
  • x-IBM937: Traditional Chinese encoding on IBM systems.
  • x-IBM939: Japanese double-byte encoding used on IBM systems.
  • x-IBM939A: Alternate variant of IBM939.
  • x-IBM941: Japanese encoding similar to Shift_JIS.
  • x-IBM942: IBM extension of Shift_JIS for Japanese.
  • x-IBM942C: Variant of IBM942 with additional characters.
  • x-IBM943: Similar to IBM942 but for Windows compatibility.
  • x-IBM943C: Modified IBM943 with extra characters.
  • x-IBM947: IBM Japanese encoding for DOS/PCs.
  • x-IBM948: IBM Simplified Chinese encoding for DOS.
  • x-IBM949: IBM Korean encoding (similar to EUC-KR).
  • x-IBM949C: Alternate IBM949 with compatibility fixes.
  • x-IBM950: IBM Traditional Chinese encoding.
  • x-IBM951: Supplement to IBM950 for additional characters.
  • x-IBM954: IBM encoding for Simplified Chinese with extra characters.
  • x-IBM954C: Variant of IBM954 with compatibility fixes.
  • x-IBM964: IBM encoding for Hebrew characters.
  • x-IBM970: IBM code page for Korean Hangul.
  • x-IBM971: Variant of IBM970.
  • x-IBM1006: IBM Arabic encoding for DOS.
  • x-IBM1025: IBM code page for Cyrillic scripts.
  • x-IBM1027: IBM encoding for Turkish language.
  • x-IBM1041: IBM Japanese encoding variant.
  • x-IBM1043: Another IBM Japanese encoding variant.
  • x-IBM1046: IBM Arabic encoding for Windows.
  • x-IBM1046S: Variant of IBM1046 with extra symbols.
  • x-IBM1047: IBM EBCDIC code page used on mainframes.
  • x-IBM01140: IBM EBCDIC Latin-1 code page.
  • x-IBM01141: IBM EBCDIC code page variant.
  • x-IBM01142: IBM EBCDIC code page variant.
  • x-IBM01143: IBM EBCDIC code page variant.
  • x-IBM01144: IBM EBCDIC code page variant.
  • x-IBM01145: IBM EBCDIC code page variant.
  • x-IBM01146: IBM EBCDIC code page variant.
  • x-IBM01147: IBM EBCDIC code page variant.
  • x-IBM01148: IBM EBCDIC code page variant.
  • x-IBM01149: IBM EBCDIC code page variant.
  • ISO-2022-CN: ISO 2022 encoding for Chinese.
  • ISO-2022-JP: ISO 2022 encoding for Japanese.
  • ISO-2022-JP-2: Extended ISO 2022 for Japanese.
  • ISO-2022-KR: ISO 2022 encoding for Korean.
  • ISO-8859-3: Latin-3 encoding for South European languages.
  • ISO-8859-4: Latin-4 encoding for Northern European languages.
  • ISO-8859-5: Cyrillic encoding.
  • ISO-8859-6: Arabic encoding.
  • ISO-8859-7: Greek encoding.
  • ISO-8859-8: Hebrew encoding.
  • ISO-8859-9: Latin-5 encoding for Turkish.
  • ISO-8859-10: Latin-6 encoding for Nordic languages.
  • ISO-8859-13: Latin-7 encoding for Baltic languages.
  • ISO-8859-14: Latin-8 encoding for Celtic languages.
  • ISO-8859-15: Latin-9 encoding (updated Latin-1 with Euro sign).
  • ISO-8859-16: Latin-10 encoding for South-Eastern European languages.
  • JIS_X0212-1990: Supplementary Japanese character set.
  • KOI8-U: Cyrillic encoding for Ukrainian.
  • KZ-1048: Cyrillic encoding for Kazakh.
  • MS932_0213: Windows Japanese encoding with extra characters.
  • PTCP154: Cyrillic encoding for Central Asia.
  • windows-874: Windows code page for Thai.
  • windows-1250: Windows Central European code page.
  • windows-1251: Windows Cyrillic code page.
  • windows-1253: Windows Greek code page.
  • windows-1254: Windows Turkish code page.
  • windows-1255: Windows Hebrew code page.
  • windows-1256: Windows Arabic code page.
  • windows-1257: Windows Baltic code page.
  • windows-1258: Windows Vietnamese code page.
  • x-UTF_8J: Japanese variant of UTF-8 encoding.
  • x-UTF-16LE-BOM: UTF-16 little-endian encoding with BOM.
  • X-UTF-32BE-BOM: UTF-32 big-endian encoding with BOM.
  • X-UTF-32LE-BOM: UTF-32 little-endian encoding with BOM.
  • IBM037: IBM EBCDIC encoding for US/Canada.
  • IBM273: IBM EBCDIC code page for Germany.
  • IBM274: IBM EBCDIC code page for Austria.
  • IBM277: IBM EBCDIC code page for Denmark/Norway.
  • IBM278: IBM EBCDIC code page for Finland/Sweden.
  • IBM280: IBM EBCDIC code page for Italy.
  • IBM284: IBM EBCDIC code page for Spain.
  • IBM285: IBM EBCDIC code page for UK.
  • IBM290: IBM EBCDIC code page for Japanese Katakana.
  • IBM297: IBM EBCDIC code page for France.
  • IBM420: IBM EBCDIC code page for Arabic.
  • IBM424: IBM EBCDIC code page for Hebrew.
  • IBM437: Original IBM PC code page (US).
  • IBM500: IBM EBCDIC code page for international use.
  • IBM775: IBM code page for Baltic languages.
  • IBM850: IBM Latin-1 code page for Western Europe.
  • IBM852: IBM Latin-2 code page for Central Europe.
  • IBM855: IBM Cyrillic code page.
  • IBM857: IBM Turkish code page.
  • IBM00858: IBM EBCDIC code page for international use.
  • IBM860: IBM Portuguese code page.
  • IBM861: IBM Icelandic code page.
  • IBM862: IBM Hebrew code page.
  • IBM863: IBM French Canadian code page.
  • IBM864: IBM Arabic code page.
  • IBM865: IBM Nordic code page.
  • IBM866: IBM Cyrillic code page for Russian.
  • IBM868: IBM Urdu code page.
  • IBM869: IBM Greek code page.
  • IBM870: IBM EBCDIC code page for multi-language Latin-2.
  • IBM871: IBM EBCDIC code page for Icelandic.
  • IBM918: IBM EBCDIC code page for Urdu.
  • x-ISO-8859-6S: Extended ISO 8859-6 for Arabic.
  • x-iso-8859-11: Thai encoding based on ISO 8859.
  • x-JIS0208: Japanese Industrial Standard Kanji character set.
  • x-JISAutoDetect: Auto-detection for JIS encoding.
  • x-Johab: Korean encoding variant.
  • x-KOI8_RU: Cyrillic encoding for Russian.
  • x-KSC5601: Korean standard character set.
  • x-MacArabic: Mac Arabic encoding.
  • x-MacCentralEurope: Mac Central European encoding.
  • x-MacCroatian: Mac Croatian encoding.
  • x-MacCyrillic: Mac Cyrillic encoding.
  • x-MacDingbat: Mac Dingbat symbol encoding.
  • x-MacGreek: Mac Greek encoding.
  • x-MacHebrew: Mac Hebrew encoding.
  • x-MacIceland: Mac Icelandic encoding.
  • x-MacRoman: Mac Roman encoding for Western European languages.
  • x-MacRomania: Mac Romanian encoding.
  • x-MacSymbol: Mac Symbol font encoding.
  • x-MacThai: Mac Thai encoding.
  • x-MacTurkish: Mac Turkish encoding.
  • x-MacUkraine: Mac Ukrainian encoding.
  • x-MS950-HKSCS: Microsoft Traditional Chinese encoding with HKSCS.
  • x-MS950-HKSCS-XP: Variant of MS950-HKSCS for Windows XP.
  • x-mswin-936: Microsoft Simplified Chinese code page.
  • x-mswin-936A: Variant of mswin-936.
  • x-PCK: Japanese Windows code page.
  • x-SJIS_0213: Extended Shift_JIS with JIS X 0213 characters.