<div dir="ltr"><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div>I'm working on a custom module to integrate with a third parties native log format. My intent is to have messages come into syslog-ng and processed as usual and then sent out a custom destination driver. <br>
<br>Right now I've hacked together different code to make it work (tcp socket connection per log source) and now I'm at the point of actually sending a custom message. I've tried to stay as "true" to the syslog-ng as possible and have leveraged the log_forward_msg method to send my LogMessage. I was hoping I could just prepend data to the LogMessage but realized after doing all the other leg work that it wasn't a simple string :)<br>
<br></div>So, my question is - what would the easiest way to leverage the existing queue->log_forward_msg (doesn't require the socket to be open vs examples such as spoof_source in afsocket) to write a custom message? I see that LogTemplate may have what I need, but after submerging myself in syslog-ng for the past week I'm not seeing clearly... Can anyone lend a hint/helping hand?<br>
<br></div>What I'm trying to do:<br><br></div>Open Socket<br></div>Send Magic/StartPacket<br><br></div>Prepend all log messages with a byte message - for example:<br><br></div>040404040400010MESSAGE (Of course Message would be in bytes/hex).<br>
<br></div>It seems I would create an NVENTRY for my prepend message and then override log_writer_format_log? to do this? Not 100% clear how I would accomplish this. I also don't want to change any of the core/lib syslog-ng to accomplish this. Should be implemented purely as a module.<br>
<br><br></div>Thanks!<br></div>