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Palo Alto Networks syslog: 1 host is ingested with incorrect date

manderson7
Contributor

Pretty weird situation here. Bringing in multiple palo alto syslog sources, all going to the same main syslog directory, then divvied up by host name, so /var/log/syslog/PaloAlto/host1/host1-PaloAlto.log, etc.

Host 1 is showing the correct date in the event that matches the log

13:49:48,010108000857,TRAFFIC,end,1,2017/08/28 13:49:48,172.30.69.194,172.30.5.69,0.0.0.0,0.0.0.0,DC_Dea_Any,,,tanium,vsys3,DC_DEA_TRUSTED,DC_DEA_UNTRUSTED,ethernet6/4.1028,ethernet6/3.1028,Log_Fwd_PA-7050,2017/08/28 13:49:48,1343232963,1,54123,17472,0,0,0x5e,tcp,allow,3133,893,2240,14,2017/08/28 13:49:29,17,any,0,0,0x0,172.16.0.0-172.31.255.255,172.16.0.0-172.31.255.255,0,9,5,tcp-fin,43,0,0,0,DC-DEA,host1,from-policy  


8/28/17
1:49:48.010 PM

while host 2 is showing

13:49:49,007801000317,TRAFFIC,end,0,2017/08/28 13:49:28,204.76.30.253,172.217.2.46,0.0.0.0,0.0.0.0,PUBLIC_TO_INTERNET,,,google-analytics,vsys10,IPS_IN,IPS_IN,ethernet1/1,ethernet1/1,Log_Fwd,2017/08/28 13:49:28,120421,1,57690,443,0,0,0x53,tcp,allow,6609,1706,4903,17,2017/08/28 13:46:38,168,computer-and-internet-info,0,31998418668,0x8000000000000000,United States,United States,0,9,8,tcp-fin,892,0,0,0,IPS_TEST,host2,from-policy,,,0,,0,,N/A

8/2/17
1:49:49.007 PM

We're uncertain how long this has been going on. I've added the following props for the sourcetype, but it's had no effect:

[pan:traffic]
DATETIME_CONFIG = 
NO_BINARY_CHECK = true
SHOULD_LINEMERGE = false
TIME_FORMAT = %Y/%m/%d %H:%M:%S
TIME_PREFIX = \S+\,\S+\,\S+\,\S+\,\S+\,
category = Custom
pulldown_type = true
MAX_TIMESTAMP_LOOKAHEAD = 19

I tried it without the timestamp_lookahead, but no change. Any help here would be appreciated.

manderson7
Contributor

May have figured this out. Had another app, Splunk_TA_paloalto, adjusting the max_timestamp_lookahead to 44 (without the time prefix), which seems to be in the middle of the day in the date string. Have changed that to 50 and pushed it out. Crossing fingers.

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