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EDR: Syslog notifications are not being sent due rate limiting

By jnaiga posted Dec 09, 2015 03:30 PM

  

Environment

  • EDR Server: 6.x and Higher

Symptoms

  • Watchlist hit notifications or Event not sent to Syslog
  • Watchlist hit notifications or Event sent and truncated
  • Error in /var/log/messages:
    Apr 29 14:30:07 localhost rsyslogd-2177: imuxsock begins to drop messages from pid <cb-enterprise PID> due to rate-limiting
  • The PID seen in /var/log/messages error is the same as the cb-enterprise PID. Verify:
    ps -ef |grep cb-enterprise

Cause

This issue is caused when rsyslog rate limiting is enabled


Resolution

Note: the changes below are external to Carbon Black and it is up to the customer to consider if this should be done or not.
  1. Disable rate limiting by modifying /etc/rsyslog.conf to:
    $SystemLogRateLimitInterval 0
    
    $SystemLogRateLimitBurst 1000
  2. Restart the Rsyslog service
    service rsyslog restart

Additional Notes

  • Setting $SystemLogRateLimitInterval to 0 turns off rate limiting entirely
  • Setting $SystemLogRateLimitBurst to 1000 increases the threshold of the number of messages for rate limiting very high

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