[syslog-ng] Use receiving file name / path as a macro on the server

[Juhász, Viktor]

Hi,

If I understand you well, You should use HOST macro in the file name.

BR,
Viktor Juhasz

On Tue, Mar 3, 2015 at 10:57 AM, Thanuje Ashwin Nallaperuma <
thanuje88 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi Sandor,
>
> I do not need to maintain the file hierarchy
> I just one to transfer the file path to the server and use it as a macro
> on the server side
> because the path is the only way I am able to identify the files I send as
> they have the same name and same content
>
> On Tue, Mar 3, 2015 at 1:35 PM, Sandor Geller <sandor.geller at ericsson.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> On 03/03/2015 05:15 AM, Thanuje Ashwin Nallaperuma wrote:
>> > Hi all,
>> >
>> > I have multiple files with the same content on the syslog-ng client
>> > These files are stored on different locations with the same file name
>> > and same content
>> > After receiving I want to store these files with different names on
>> > sysog-ng server
>> > Is there any way I could use the filepath or filename of the receiving
>> > file as a macro
>> > or any way to achieve this..?
>>
>> I'm having some trouble understading what you're after. Do you want to
>> simply transfer files from remote systems to a central place and keep a
>> similar filesystem hierarchy on the central location as well? For such a
>> purpose syslog isn't the preferred way as it isn't a generic purpose
>> transport so use something else like rsync.
>>
>> There are ways to manipulate messages on the originating side (for
>> example by adding tags to the syslog-ng source definitions) and
>> encapsulating the extra information into the message payload you'll be
>> able to extract the information on the remote side - but I'm not sure it
>> worths the effort.
>>
>> hth,
>>
>> Sandor
>>
>>
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