[syslog-ng] Alternate logging destination

[Matt Zagrabelny]

On Mon, 2006-11-06 at 16:33 +0100, Szeti, Balazs wrote:
> Hello!
> 
> I would like to design a centralized logging system with 50 edge nodes
> and one center.
> It's quiet important to have all the logs even if the center is
> unreachable. Is there a way to configure syslog-ng to use an alternate
> destination? For example if the centralized TCP destionation server is
> down, the edge node syslog-ng may log in to a local file, so the logs
> can be reached later manually. When the center server in online again
> syslog-ng may log online again.

you could always do a HA cluster.

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