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<p class=MsoNormal>Please provide thoughts and comments – <o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal>I’m not a DBA and I’m having our DBAs do further
research here, but …<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>I infer from the Oracle documentation, that Oracle logs to a
single syslog facility+level per instance, if configured. And the
information in the Oracle log cannot be configured/altered. The downside
that I’m seeing is that there is no information in regards to the Oracle
instance. So, if I have a box with 20+ instances and I wish to relay this
to a central server, all this is going to end up as noise.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>My kludge for this, would be to setup the following on each
Oracle server:<o:p></o:p></p>
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Instance #1 -> local0.debug<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>
Instance #2 -> local0.info<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>
Instance #3 -> local0.warn<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>
Instance #4 -> local1.debug<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>
Instance #5 -> local1.info<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>
Instance #6 -> local1.warn<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'> Etc.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>Then, setup syslog-ng on that Oracle server to use templates
(one per instance), to route the data to a single facility & level on our
centralized syslog-ng log server and imbed an instance name into the log.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>This config sounds really cumbersome. I’m also
trying to avoid using Oracle to send the logs to a different instance which
would do the consolidation. Does anyone else have a better solution?
Am I right in that Oracle will only send to a single facility+level combo
regardless of criticality?<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>Thanks,<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>Jim<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p>
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