To export the entire pattern database, navigate to Log > Pattern Database and select Export.
To export a ruleset, enter the name of the ruleset into the Search > Ruleset name field, click Show, and select Export ruleset. If you do not know the name of the ruleset, enter a search term into the Program or Message field and select Search. The rulesets that contain matching rules will appear.
You can upload official databases distributed by One Identity or pattern databases that you have exported from syslog-ng Store Box (SSB).
To import a ruleset
Navigate to Log > Pattern Database.
Select Browse.
Locate the database file to upload, then click Upload.
NOTE: Imported rules are effective immediately after the upload is finished.
If you have modified a rule that was originally part of an official database, then the update will not modify this rule.
Pattern parsers attempt to parse a part of the message using rules specific to the type of the parser. Parsers are enclosed between @ characters. The syntax of parsers is the following:
an opening @ character,
the type of the parser written in capitals,
optionally a name,
parameters of the parser, if any, and
a closing @ character.
A simple parser:
@STRING@
A named parser:
@STRING:myparser_name@
A named parser with a parameter:
@STRING:myparser_name:*@
A parser with a parameter, but without a name:
@STRING::*@
The following parsers are available:
@ANYSTRING@: Parses everything to the end of the message. You can use it to collect everything that is not parsed specifically to a single macro. In that sense its behavior is similar to the greedy() option of the CSV parser.
@DOUBLE@: An obsolete alias of the @FLOAT@ parser.
@ESTRING@: This parser has a required parameter that acts as the stopcharacter: the parser parses everything until it find the stopcharacter. For example to stop by the next " (double quote) character, use @ESTRING::"@. As of syslog-ng 3.1, it is possible to specify a stopstring instead of a single character, for example @ESTRING::stop_here.@.
@FLOAT@: A floating-point number that may contain a dot (.) character. (Up to syslog-ng 3.1, the name of this parser was @DOUBLE@.)
@IPv4@: Parses an IPv4 IP address (numbers separated with a maximum of 3 dots).
@IPv6@: Parses any valid IPv6 IP address.
@IPvANY@: Parses any IP address.
@NUMBER@: A sequence of decimal (0-9) numbers (for example 1, 0687, and so on). Note that if the number starts with the 0x characters, it is parsed as a hexadecimal number, but only if at least one valid character follows 0x.
@QSTRING@: Parse a string between the quote characters specified as parameter. Note that the quote character can be different at the beginning and the end of the quote, for example: @QSTRING::"@ parses everything between two quotation marks ("), while @QSTRING:<>@ parses from an opening bracket to the closing bracket.
@STRING@: A sequence of alphanumeric characters (0-9, A-z), not including any whitespace. Optionally, other accepted characters can be listed as parameters (for example to parse a complete sentence, add the whitespace as parameter, like: @STRING:: @). Note that the @ character cannot be a parameter, nor can line-breaks or tabs.
Patterns and literals can be mixed together. For example, to parse a message that begins with the Host: string followed by an IP address (for example Host: 192.168.1.1), the following pattern can be used: Host:@IPv4@.
NOTE: Note that using parsers is a CPU-intensive operation. Use the ESTRING and QSTRING parsers whenever possible, as these can be processed much faster than the other parsers.
For example, if the message is user=joe96 group=somegroup, @STRING:mytext:@ parses only to the first non-alphanumeric character (=), parsing only user. @STRING:mytext:=@ parses the equation mark as well, and proceeds to the next non-alphanumeric character (the whitespace), resulting in user=joe96 being parsed. @STRING:mytext:= @ will parse the whitespace as well, and proceed to the next non-alphanumeric non-equation mark non-whitespace character, resulting in user=joe96 group=somegroup.
Of course, usually it is better to parse the different values separately, like this: "user=@STRING:user@ group=@STRING:group@".
If the username or the group may contain non-alphanumeric characters, you can either include these in the second parameter of the parser (as shown at the beginning of this example), or use an ESTRING parser to parse the message till the next whitespace: "user=@ESTRING:user: @group=@ESTRING:group: @".
Patterns can be created for multiline log messages. For example, the following pattern will find the multiline message where a line ends with first and the next line starts with second:
first second
The results of message classification and parsing can be used in custom filters and file and database templates as well. There are two built-in macros in syslog-ng Store Box (SSB) that allow you to use the results of the classification: the .classifier.class macro contains the class assigned to the message (for example violation, security, or unknown), while the .classifier.rule_id macro contains the identifier of the message pattern that matched the message.
NOTE: ID of the message pattern is automatically inserted into the template if the messages are forwarded to an SQL database.
The following procedure describes how to use these macros as filters in a log path.
To use macros as filters in a log path
Navigate to Log > Paths and select the log path to use.
To filter on a specific message class, select Add filter > classifier_class, select 
Figure 244: Log > Paths — Filtering messages based on the classification
To filter on messages matching a specific classification rule, Add filter > classifier_rule_id, select
NOTE: To filter messages based on other classification data like tags, you have to use Custom filters. For details, see Filtering messages.
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