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Update syslog parser to handle modern formats. #19737

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14 changes: 14 additions & 0 deletions test/tools/Modules/PSSysLog/PSSysLog.psm1
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Expand Up @@ -218,8 +218,22 @@ class PSLogItem
In those cases, a single message is logged in the following format

MMM dd HH:MM:SS machinename id[PID]: message repeated NNN times: [(commitid:TID:CHANNEL) [EventName] Message]

Alternatively, more recent syslog daemons may change the message format to:

2023-06-02T22:49:50.513735+00:00 machinename id[PID]: message repeated NNN times: [(commitid:TID:CHANNEL) [EventName] Message]

the first element of the line may be converted to a datetime, which we can use to convert the input to the expected string.
#>

$firstToken = $content.split()[0]
$dt = $firstToken -as [DateTime]
if ($dt)
{
$replacement = "{0:MMM} {0:dd} {0:hh}:{0:mm}:{0:ss}" -f $dt
$content = $content.replace($firstToken,$replacement)
}

# split contents into separate space delimited tokens (first 7) and leave the rest as the message.
[string[]] $parts = $content.Split(' ', 8, [System.StringSplitOptions]::RemoveEmptyEntries)

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