On Wed, Jan 25, 2006 at 02:31:50PM -0700, William Bell wrote:
Yes the syslog feed off the xserve is most likely UDP based and it will just continue to stream syslog messages to the unresponsive destination. There may or may not be a way to setup a backup syslog server in the Xserve admin functions.
WilliamB
-----Original Message----- From: syslog-ng-bounces@lists.balabit.hu [mailto:syslog-ng-bounces@lists.balabit.hu] On Behalf Of Ken Garland Sent: Wednesday, January 25, 2006 2:30 PM To: Syslog-ng users' and developers' mailing list Subject: [syslog-ng] Xserve sending to Syslog-NG
I have a question regarding setting up an Xserve to send to our central log server. If the Syslog-NG server goes down, will the Xserve continuously retry to send the logs until the Syslog-NG server is available?
Of course I feel that I have to mention the possiblity of installing syslog-ng on the Xserve, configuring a TCP connection to the central syslog-ng server and setting a large enough buffer to not lose logs during an outage (whatever that means for the amount of logs your client typically sends and how long you think your central server will be down and how much memory you want to use up when the buffer is full - you'll probably just have to guess). -- Nate I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion. I watched C-beams glitter in the dark near the Tannhauser gate. All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain. Time to die. -- Roy Batty, Blade Runner