[syslog-ng] Syslog-ng and network failover

Jonathon Blumenthal jonathon.blumenthal at ironmountain.com
Thu Mar 15 15:35:58 CET 2007


I need to have a highly available centralized log server (all Linux). 

Is there a way to configure syslog-ng to automatically detect when the
remote syslog server has gone down so that it can redirect messages
elsewhere? 

Something like this:
destination d_tcp1 { tcp("192.168.1.1"); failover(d_tcp2); };
destination d_tcp2 { tcp("192.168.1.2"); };

If not, anyone know of any Linux loggers that will do this?

-Jon

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