Hello everyone,

We're migrating our LDAP servers to new RHEL 7. Previously we had RHEL 5.2 and Openldap logging was working just fine with the following config using syslog.

· Set up OpenLDAP logging:

o (as root user) mkdir /var/log/openldap

o (as root user) chmod 755 /var/log/openldap

o (as root user) touch /var/log/openldap/openldap.log

o (as root user) vi /etc/syslog.conf

§ Add the line “Local6.* /var/log/openldap/openldap.log”

o (as root user) kill –HUP <process ID of syslogd>

The new servers have rsyslog instead of syslog and I did the same procedures in rsyslog.conf file, set olcloglevel as sync stats same as in the old server and restarted rsyslog with

systemctl restart rsyslog.service .The openldap.log file is empty. I have tried local4 too and same result. My rsyslog.conf file looks like this . Can someone please help me with this? Any help is appreciated.

# rsyslog v5 configuration file

# For more information see /usr/share/doc/rsyslog-*/rsyslog_conf.html

# If you experience problems, see http://www.rsyslog.com/doc/troubleshoot.html

#### MODULES ####

$ModLoad imuxsock # provides support for local system logging (e.g. via logger command)

$ModLoad imklog # provides kernel logging support (previously done by rklogd)

$ModLoad immark # provides --MARK-- message capability

# Provides UDP syslog reception

$ModLoad imudp

$UDPServerRun 514

# Provides TCP syslog reception

$ModLoad imtcp

$InputTCPServerRun 514

#### GLOBAL DIRECTIVES ####

# Use default timestamp format

$ActionFileDefaultTemplate RSYSLOG_TraditionalFileFormat

# File syncing capability is disabled by default. This feature is usually not required,

# not useful and an extreme performance hit

#$ActionFileEnableSync on

# Include all config files in /etc/rsyslog.d/

$IncludeConfig /etc/rsyslog.d/*.conf

#### RULES ####

# Log all kernel messages to the console.

# Logging much else clutters up the screen.

#kern.* /dev/console

# Log anything (except mail) of level info or higher.

# Don't log private authentication messages!

*.info;mail.none;authpriv.none;cron.none /var/log/messages

# The authpriv file has restricted access.

authpriv.* /var/log/secure

# Log all the mail messages in one place.

mail.* -/var/log/maillog

daemon.* /var/log/daemon.log

kern.* /var/log/kern.log

syslog.* /var/log/syslog

# Log cron stuff

cron.* /var/log/cron

# Everybody gets emergency messages

*.emerg *

# Save news errors of level crit and higher in a special file.

uucp,news.crit /var/log/spooler

# Save boot messages also to boot.log

local7.* /var/log/boot.log

#OpenLDAP logging

local6.* /var/log/openldap/openldap.log

# ### begin forwarding rule ###

# The statement between the begin ... end define a SINGLE forwarding

# rule. They belong together, do NOT split them. If you create multiple

# forwarding rules, duplicate the whole block!

# Remote Logging (we use TCP for reliable delivery)

# An on-disk queue is created for this action. If the remote host is

# down, messages are spooled to disk and sent when it is up again.

#$WorkDirectory /var/lib/rsyslog # where to place spool files

#$ActionQueueFileName fwdRule1 # unique name prefix for spool files

#$ActionQueueMaxDiskSpace 1g # 1gb space limit (use as much as possible)

#$ActionQueueSaveOnShutdown on # save messages to disk on shutdown

#$ActionQueueType LinkedList # run asynchronously

#$ActionResumeRetryCount -1 # infinite retries if host is down

# remote host is: name/ip:port, e.g. 192.168.0.1:514, port optional

#*.* @@remote-host:514

# ### end of the forwarding rule ###

## Nessus/CIS compliance items

## Send everything to Unix syslog host

## Following setting is per Chris Humphrey 6/19/2013

*.err;kern.notice;auth.notice;auth.crit;daemon.notice @siem-unix.abc.com

## Send httpd logs to Apache syslog host - requires additional apache config

daemon.notice @@SIEM-apache.abc.com

auth,user.* /var/log/messages

# A template to for higher precision timestamps + severity logging

$template SpiceTmpl,"%TIMESTAMP%.%TIMESTAMP:::date-subseconds% %syslogtag% %syslogseverity-text%:%msg:::sp-if-no-1st-sp%%msg:::drop-last-lf%\n"

Jeevan