[syslog-ng] Xserve sending to Syslog-NG

[Nate Campi]

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 at lists.balabit.hu
> [mailto:syslog-ng-bounces at 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

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