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# Cisco IOS

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## Overview{% #overview %}

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Cisco IOS syslog captures security, auth, and routing events.

What this pack does:

- Parses facility, severity, and mnemonic
- Extracts ACL hits, login failures, and SSH sessions
- Drops debug noise, samples interface flaps