[syslog-ng]syslog-ng in a Solaris environment

[Chuck Kelly]

We have syslog-ng running on Solaris 8. Multiple platforms are logging in
including Linux, HP, IBM, and Windows. Balazs and Nate Campi have both been
excellent sources of information. www.campin.net.

Upgrading is as easy as downloading and compiling the new binary and pushing
out to the central log hosts. The hosts reporting in still run the regular
syslogd for now.

Stability has been very good. Although certain versions have had issues,
Balazs has done a good job getting patches out quickly to improve
stabilization.

On one of our central log hosts, which has about 3000 hosts reporting in, we
did note performance issues which was a DNS caching issue that was fixed. We
also made our loghost DNS cache servers to further improve performance.

Due to certain functionality requirements, we are using the 1.5.x release.
Overall we are very happy with the product.

--Chuck

-----Original Message-----
From: syslog-ng-admin@lists.balabit.hu
[mailto:syslog-ng-admin@lists.balabit.hu]On Behalf Of George Horvath
Sent: Tuesday, March 18, 2003 9:05 AM
To: syslog-ng@lists.balabit.hu
Subject: [syslog-ng]syslog-ng in a Solaris environment


Hi All,

I am working on a log centralization project in a Solaris environment and my
initial search led me to syslog-ng.  I signed up
to this mailing list to get a feel for syslog-ng's performance and support
issues.    It seems like a good product which is
recommended by a lot of people.

I am wondering though if there are any other products that may be better,
have better support etc..  I'm willing to pay for a
commercial product with advantages over syslog-ng.  Although I'm a huge fan
of open source, I use a lot of os products how
ever I am not a programmer so support is an issue for me.

If you are running syslog-ng in a Solaris environment (especially Solaris
8/9) I would very much be interested hearing about
your experiences.  I would really be interested in positive comments from
someone who is successfully employing syslog-ng.

There were a few Solaris based questions recently but that's not a good
indication of it being a problematic platform.

Finally,  I noticed there are frequent releases of syslog-ng.  How
easy/difficult/time consuming is it to upgrade an
operational environment?

TIA,
George Horvath

P.S.  I am a Hungarian born, so it would be interesting for me to use
syslog-ng


_______________________________________________
syslog-ng maillist  -  syslog-ng@lists.balabit.hu
https://lists.balabit.hu/mailman/listinfo/syslog-ng
Frequently asked questions at http://www.campin.net/syslog-ng/faq.html