If you configure your app server to send events using a SocketHubAppender, any number of clients can connect to the server and receive events via SocketHubReceiver.
There are also ways to transfer this processing off of the app server by using a SimpleSocketServer on a separate machine. Set up this new machine using SimpleSocketServer with a SocketHubReceiver configured to connect to the app server's SocketHubAppender. Clients like Chainsaw would connect to the new machine's SocketHubAppender using SocketHubReceiver to receive events. You could also set up the app server to send events to the SocketHubAppender via AsyncAppender, but read the Javadoc for limitations (AsyncAppender uses a bounded buffer, so you could lose messages). Other non-tcp based options (if you can use the CVS head of log4j) include the new MulticastAppender/Receiver pair and UDPAppender/receiver pair. These are UDP-based and you could lose messages. Also, the CVS head version of socketHubAppender supports a size-configurable cyclic event buffer. Clients connecting to the socketHubAppender will receive the most recently received X number of events as specified by the bufferSize param. See the javadocs for information on these appenders and receivers. Here's a link to the ViewCVS org.apache.log4j.net package, which contains these appenders/receivers. http://cvs.apache.org/viewcvs.cgi/jakarta-log4j/src/java/org/apache/log4 j/net/ Hope this helps, Scott -----Original Message----- From: Perry, Mike [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, July 22, 2004 5:06 AM To: Log4J Users List (E-mail) Subject: Configuration Question Hi everyone, please forgive my ignorance for asking the obvious, here is what I am attempting to do: We are running the IBM WebSphere Application Server, v4.0, on an iSeries box. Our applications will log to multiple files and utilize the socket appender to send specific errors to Chainsaw v2. What I would like to know is, how can I set up Chainsaw V2 on a client and have the errors reported to Chainsaw from the application server. The client will have JDK 1.4 on it. Does chainsaw have a configuration file that needs to be modified to communicate with a server? again please forgive my ignorance, I am brand new to logging and chainsaw. Any advice or examples would be greatly appreciated. Mike Perry --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
