Dear syslog-ng users, This is the 24th issue of the syslog-ng Insider, a monthly newsletter that brings you syslog-ng related news. FEATURED NEWS syslog-ng configurator app for Android -------------------------------------- There is now a new configurator app available for Android, developed as a hobby project by one of the syslog-ng team members. The focus of the application is to create a syslog-ng.conf wich provides optimum performance based on a number of questions. For more details and download locations read the authors blog at http://pzolee.blogs.balabit.com/2013/04/little-syslog-ng-configurator-applic... syslog-ng and Splunk -------------------- We often receive questions, how to use syslog-ng and Splunk together in a logging infrastructure. We collected the most popular usage scenarios into a white paper, together with example configurations to make testing and integration even more easy. The WP is available at http://www.balabit.com/support/documentation/pdf/syslog-ng_splunk_deployment... syslog-ng is participating GSoC again ------------------------------------- Just as last year, syslog-ng is participating Google Summer of Code under the umbrella of the openSUSE project. We have candidates for developing a native mysql destination, a redis destination, a XMPP (jabber) destination and log signing, which is a big improvement from last year, where we only had a single candidate for a similar number of development projects. The application process is closed now and there are still a couple of weeks to go, before the final list of approved students is announced. http://news.opensuse.org/2013/04/25/opensuse-hedgewars-and-owncloud-are-movi... Big changes ahead for EU data protection regulation --------------------------------------------------- This summer will most likely bring big changes in the regulation of Data Protection in the European Union. We collected these proposed changes and also how syslog-ng and proper central log management can help to comply with these regulations: http://jluby.blogs.balabit.com/2013/04/22/big-changes-ahead-for-eu- <http://jluby.blogs.balabit.com/2013/04/22/big-changes-ahead-for-eu-data-protection-regulation/>data-protection-regulation/ <http://jluby.blogs.balabit.com/2013/04/22/big-changes-ahead-for-eu-data-protection-regulation/> Compiling syslog-ng with MS SQL support on RHEL / CentOS & Co. -------------------------------------------------------------- During the past few months many people asked, how to log from syslog-ng to MS SQL on RHEL or CentOS. If you cannot buy syslog-ng PE (http://www.balabit.com/network-security/syslog-ng/central-syslog-server), follow these steps to compile all the necessary components yourselfand configure the MS SQL part: https://czanik.blogs.balabit.com/2013/04/compiling-syslog-ng-with-ms-sql-sup... SHORT NEWS: * RFC5424 syslog between syslog-ng and rsyslog: https://czanik.blogs.balabit.com/2013/04/using-the-rfc5424-syslog-protocol-w... * Linuxwochen: syslog-ng, AMQP, and 3D printers: http://czanik.blogs.balabit.com/2013/05/czp-linuxwochen-syslog-ng-amqp-and-3... Your feedback and news tips about the next issue is welcome at documentation@balabit.com <mailto:documentation@balabit.com> To read this newsletter on-line, visit: http://insider.blogs.balabit.com/ -- Peter Czanik (CzP) <czanik@balabit.hu> BalaBit IT Security / syslog-ng upstream http://czanik.blogs.balabit.com/