[syslog-ng] Quick Questions

[Balazs Scheidler]

On Tue, 2010-05-25 at 07:15 -0600, Patrick H. wrote:
> 1) What? Asynchronous/synchronous communication is a term used to
> describe 2 way communication over physical medium. Syslog-ng message
> relaying is one way and over tcp or udp.
> 
> 2) Yes syslog-ng will send the unsent messages. You need the premium
> version for this feature.

the premium edition is only needed for disk based buffering. of course
the OSE version also supports memory based queueing, and those get sent
when the connection breaks.

> 
> 3) You can use vpn tunnels or some other type of tunnel for this.
> Syslog-ng does not have any built-in transport encryption.

hmm.. it does support TLS. in my understanding it is a transport
encryption.

> 
> 4) If youre asking are messages forwarded to remote syslog-ng server
> as soon as theyre received, it can be configured this way yes. Or it
> can buffer them and send in bursts.

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Bazsi