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Re: syslog facility
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Rory Toma |
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Re: syslog facility |
Date: |
30 May 2003 14:08:13 -0700 |
I agree (+1) and I'll put it in next week (after I finish rewriting some
Makefiles at work...)
On Fri, 2003-05-30 at 13:55, Martin Pala wrote:
> Hi,
>
> i have one question - what about to add possibility to choose syslog
> facility to monit?
>
> In our environment (tens of servers) we use central syslog server, which
> catches feeds from all services. With some more feature rich syslog
> servers (such as syslog-ng) it is not issue to have the same facility
> for different targets (you can filter logs with the same facility by
> program name), but with OS default and widely used syslog (linux,
> solaris, ...) the only way is to set other facility (for example local3,
> etc.) which can be then redirected to other syslog server (all or
> nothing rule).
>
> example:
>
> user.debug /var/log/messages #system messages which we won't for
> some reason to send to central-syslog server
> local3.debug @central-syslog #monit messages which should be
> send to cetral-syslog server
>
> If it will be possible to set local3 facility in monitrc, then it will
> be easy to do it without changing system syslog server SW.
>
> What about it?
>
> I'm +1 for adding syslog facility option to monit.
>
> Cheers,
> Martin
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