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NXlog-CE-3.0.2272 and Microsoft-Windows-PrintService
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I've configured NXlog to send printing events from our Windows 2012R2 print server to our Nagios LS instance. **Except **for the following issue, it works well.
The issue is - when a filename contains a "%" sign, I receive a _grokparsefailure in Nagios. That led me to NXLog-CE and how it (and its modules) read/parsed the data from the Microsoft Windows PrintService Event Log. I enabled troubleshooting by means of debug AND outputting the $raw_event to a text file.
Is there a way I can get this document name from the Windows Event Viewer into Nagios via NXlog-CE? This issue looks similar to this thread, which says the problem is with the provider: https://nxlog.co/question/2362/problem-windows-event
DEBUG OUTPUT:
{"EventTime":"2022-02-11 10:38:48","Hostname":"xxx.yyy.zzz","Keywords":4611686018427390016,"EventType":"INFO","SeverityValue":2,"Severity":"INFO","EventID":307,"SourceName":"Microsoft-Windows-PrintService","ProviderGuid":"{xxxxxxx}","Version":0,"Task":26,"OpcodeValue":11,"RecordNumber":2136143,"ProcessID":4764,"ThreadID":6728,"Channel":"Microsoft-Windows-PrintService/Operational","Domain":"XXXX","AccountName":"QQQQ","UserID":"SID-aaa-bbb-ccc","AccountType":"User",**"ERROR_EVT_UNRESOLVED":true**,"Category":"Printing a document","Opcode":"Spooler Operation Succeeded","EventReceivedTime":"2022-02-11 10:38:50","SourceModuleName":"eventlog","SourceModuleType":"im_msvistalog","message":null}
$raw_event OUTPUT:
2022-02-11 10:38:48 xxx.yyy.zzz INFO 307 XXXX\QQQQ[The description for EventID 307 from source Microsoft-Windows-PrintService cannot be found: **The substitution string for insert index (%1) could not be found**. ]
CONFIG:
define ROOT C:\Program Files\nxlog
define CERT %ROOT%\cert
Moduledir %ROOT%\modules
CacheDir %ROOT%\data
Pidfile %ROOT%\data\nxlog.pid
SpoolDir %ROOT%\data
LogFile %ROOT%\data\nxlog.log
<Extension json>
Module xm_json
</Extension>
<Extension syslog>
Module xm_syslog
</Extension>
<Input internal>
Module im_internal
</Input>
<Input eventlog>
Module im_msvistalog
<QueryXML>
<QueryList>
<Query Id="0">
<Select Path="System">*[System[Provider[@Name='Srv'] and (Level=1 or Level=2 or Level=3)]]</Select>
<Select Path="Microsoft-Windows-PrintService/Admin">*[System[(Level=1 or Level=2 or Level=3)]]</Select>
<Select Path="Microsoft-Windows-PrintService/Operational">*</Select>
</Query>
</QueryList>
</QueryXML>
</Input>
<Output out>
Module om_tcp
Host qqq.yyy.zzz
Port 1234
Exec $tmpmessage = $Message; delete($Message); rename_field("tmpmessage","message");
Exec $raw_event = to_json();
</Output>
<Route 1>
Path internal, file1, eventlog => out
</Route>
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