[syslog-ng] WANTED: feature owner of syslog-ng command line tool :)

[Noémi Ványi]

Hello!

First, thanks for all of the proposals and suggestions. In my proposal I
had written the same as Balint did about the command line configuration of
syslog-ng (This can be found under the section "Configuration" of my
proposal: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B5rOtg14cnD0ek9TSklPSnZ4YWM/view).
I would prefer that existing configuration is testable by adding the
configuration elements to the stdin/stdout path. Complex configurations
would take forever to type as command line parameters. So I agree with
Balint. But I am not sure how big the feature would be if this way is
chosen. I will discuss it with my mentor.

Scot, what do you mean by "I would like to see options that syslog-ng-ctl
has plus the ability to see filter, log, and destination data in
real-time."? Do you want to see which messages and how got processed?

kvch

On 24 May 2016 at 02:35, Scot <scotrn at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi,
>
>  We use syslog-ng in a very diverse environment of vlans. The majority of
> the config is driven from python against an ipam.  (Maybe API to drive
> config from Ipam's too?)
>
> So for any given subnet we will have a filter, destination and log rule.
>  we have over 700 vlans which makes for a large but simple set of conf
> files.
>
> I would like to see options that syslog-ng-ctl has plus the ability to see
> filter, log, and destination data in real-time.  Even a counter would be
> helpful.
>
> Ideally this would be a socket connection to the running syslog-ng daemon
> similar to what NcFTP has ncftpd_spy and ncftpd_watch.
>
> more to come.
>
> Thanks
> Scot
>
>
>
>
> On Fri, May 20, 2016 at 8:10 AM, Noémi Ványi <sitbackandwait at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Hello!
>>
>> A new feature is going to be developed, as a part of GSOC, so syslog-ng
>> can be started as a command line tool.
>>
>> What could the CLI do for you?
>>
>>    - pipelines of complex filtering, rewriting could be tested more
>>    easily, thus configuration could become simpler than before
>>    - existing logs could be transformed
>>
>> The format of the new command line options is not decided yet. So your
>> help and insight is needed to design the interface and the usage of the
>> tool that you and other people around the world would use. :)
>>
>> If you are intereted in contributing to the CLI, thus contributing to the
>> syslog-ng community, please send an email to this thread. :) I am available
>> at gitter for further info. :)
>>
>> Regards
>> kvch
>>
>>
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