I am supporting a large number of syslog-ng hosts and we manage the configuration files with gitlab.  I have been trying to figure out how to reference a variable based on hostname in the syslog-ng.conf file on each machine.  For example, I would like to be able to have an include statement based on hostname – this would allow our common repository to have an exception set of filters/rules for each host but to use the exact same syslog-ng.conf file everywhere:

################################## syslog-ng.conf ###########################################

@version: 3.2

Include “`hostname`.conf”

…

Is there a way to accomplish this in version 3.2 (if not, does it appear in a later version)?

We are restricted to EPEL6 included versions of syslog-ng, so that’s why we’re at version 3.2

- JB