[syslog-ng] program destination application status

Jain, Vaibhav (GE Healthcare) Vaibhav.Jain at ge.com
Wed Aug 26 10:00:01 CEST 2009


Hi,

I am using syslog-ng open source 3.0.3-1 ( rhel5.amd64) version. I am
sending my log messages to a python parser(in program destination) to do
some action on log messages.I want to know if my program application is
down then can I know it in syslog-ng configuration? Because if my parser
application is down then in that case I want to stop sending message to
parser code because it's down, otherwise I will lose my log messages.
And once the application comes up then I want to send the log messages.



# destinations
destination d_parser {
#Send message to parser
program("python /opt/syslog-ng/etc/Parser.py");
};


log {
source(s_network);
destination(d_parser);
};

Regards,
Vaibhav


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