[syslog-ng] pull logs from remote hosts with syslog-ng?

[Jon Sabo]

Thanks for replying.

On Nov 13, 2007 10:39 PM, Matt Cuttler <mcuttler at bnl.gov> wrote:
> Jon Sabo wrote:
> > Why would stunnel be involved?  I don't need to secure the
> > communication across the link.
> Not for encryption, in your case, but to have your centralized collector
> initiate the connection to your remote hosts.
>
> I'm assuming that you've got some packet filtering, firewalls etc. in
> place, presumably something that keeps state? This is why I mention stunnel.
>
> > So can you configure syslog-ng to pull logs?
> >
>
> Not to my knowledge, unless perhaps you had some distributed filesystem.
> But of course that'd be another work-around (like stunnel). You might
> want to look at all the "sources" section of the administrators manual
> in case I missed something (very possible).
>
>
>
> -Matt Cuttler
>
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