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I noticed when sending syslog from the WAX's to our syslog server (in this case a Wazuh SIEM installation) that there's some issues. First issue, it's hard to differentiate the syslog coming from...
schumaku
Jun 14, 2025Guru - Experienced User
The Insight Location Name and the Insight Device Name are two different things. If any, it should be the Device Name as configured per device on Insight.
In our large scale projects, we prefer having unique FQDNs for every device in be network, including the mapping to the DNS infrastructure. Big pure hostname or the location name are much to small entities.
GeertB
Jun 16, 2025Follower
I agree and I could live with that, but I compare this to our M4300 stack, in all the logs there's only 1 hostname for the whole stack. I don't get logs from the individual switches.
As the WAX device names are also configurable and set and visible in Insight, it would actually be better to see these names in the logs as it would make is even clearer where a connection/disconnection or error originates.