Hi,

We use syslog-ng in a very diverse environment of vlans. The majority of the config is driven from python against an ipam. (Maybe API to drive config from Ipam's too?)

So for any given subnet we will have a filter, destination and log rule. we have over 700 vlans which makes for a large but simple set of conf files.

I would like to see options that syslog-ng-ctl has plus the ability to see filter, log, and destination data in real-time. Even a counter would be helpful.

Ideally this would be a socket connection to the running syslog-ng daemon similar to what NcFTP has ncftpd_spy and ncftpd_watch.

more to come.

Thanks

Scot

On Fri, May 20, 2016 at 8:10 AM, Noémi Ványi <sitbackandwait@gmail.com> wrote:

Hello!

A new feature is going to be developed, as a part of GSOC, so syslog-ng can be started as a command line tool.

What could the CLI do for you?
pipelines of complex filtering, rewriting could be tested more easily, thus configuration could become simpler than before
existing logs could be transformed
The format of the new command line options is not decided yet. So your help and insight is needed to design the interface and the usage of the tool that you and other people around the world would use. :)

If you are intereted in contributing to the CLI, thus contributing to the syslog-ng community, please send an email to this thread. :) I am available at gitter for further info. :)

Regards
kvch

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