SocketReceiver just needs a port to listen on - it's accepting connections on a port. SocketAppender is told the host and port of the SocketReceiver - the appender connects to the receiver and sends events. If you change the 'remoteHost' param in your appender config to the IP address of the machine running Chainsaw it will work (your Chainsaw receiver config is fine).
I forgot one appender/receiver combination that would probably be more useful in your case: SocketHubAppender and SocketHubReceiver The difference between SocketAppender/Receiver and SocketHubAppender/Receiver: With SocketAppender and SocketReceiver, the -appender- connects to the receiver - the appender can only send events to the single client running the socketreceiver With SocketHubAppender and SocketHubReceiver, this is reversed: the -receiver- connects to the appender - so you can run Chainsaw from any number of clients and connect to the server running a SocketHubAppender Try out SocketHubAppender and Receiver, and more than one person can view the events at the same time, without changing your server configuration. Hope this helps, Scott -----Original Message----- From: Rakesh Patel [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, November 02, 2005 9:41 AM To: Log4J Users List Subject: RE: Help getting started with Chainsaw V2 Hi Scott, Well I ran my app locally and configured the log4j.xml file like this: <appender name="socketLogger" class="org.apache.log4j.net.SocketAppender"> <param name="RemoteHost" value="localhost"/> <param name="Port" value="4445"/> <param name="LocationInfo" value="false"/> </appender> Then in Chainsaw set up a new SocketReceiver and gave a port of 4445. It worked!!!! Now I have deployed my app to a remote server with the settings above but do not know how to configure the SocketReceiver in Chainsaw to accept events. I tried to put the ip address of the remote server in the listener property but it won't hold. What am I missing? Cheers Rakesh -----Original Message----- From: Rakesh Patel Sent: 02 November 2005 16:37 To: Log4J Users List Subject: RE: Help getting started with Chainsaw V2 Thank you Scott. I will read through your post carefully. Can I ask one quick question just in case - can I setup a SocketAppender in my remote app sending events on port 4445 which is using log4j1.2x and have them received by Chainsaw v2? If so, I can go through your mail knowing its possible. Cheers Rakesh -----Original Message----- From: Scott Deboy [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 02 November 2005 16:16 To: Log4J Users List Subject: RE: Help getting started with Chainsaw V2 Resending, hoping spaces make the table display correctly. ----- Receivers do the work of getting logging events into the log4j framework from some external source. Log4j 1.3 provides receivers that can process events generated by a number of logging frameworks, custom SQL databases, and any VFS-accessible file system. Here's a list of event sources and receivers that can process the events: Network: SocketAppender SocketReceiver UDPAppender UDPReceiver MulticastAppender MulticastReceiver Log4CXX/Log4PHP/Log4Perl Socket Appender XMLSocketReciever Log4Net UDPAppender (using Log4j's DTD schema) UDPReceiver java.util.logging SocketHandler XMLSocketReceiver using UtilLoggingXMLDecoder Database: DBAppender (log4j-defined schema) DBReceiver Custom schema (you specify the SQL) CustomSQLDBReceiver File: FileAppender using PatternLayout LogFilePatternReceiver (must be accessible as a URL) VFS-supported file systems (SSH, FTP, etc) VFSLogFilePatternReceiver You can also open existing logging files stored using log4j's XMLLayout or java.util.logging's XMLFormatter from the File menu. To automatically configure receivers in Chainsaw, create a log4j.xml configuration file containing 'plugin' entries, similar to 'appender' entries, but they define receiver configurations. You can find an example receiver config file on Chainsaw's Welcome tab's toolbar: the 'View example receiver configuration' button. Create your own configuration file. Select 'view, show application-wide preferences' menu, specify the URL to your config file in the automatic configuration URL box and restart Chainsaw. You can also define many receivers from inside the Chainsaw GUI - select the 'view, show receivers' menu item. From there you can create new receivers, delete receivers, change existing receiver configurations, start and stop receivers, etc. Scott -----Original Message----- From: Rakesh Patel [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, November 02, 2005 7:38 AM To: Log4J Users List Subject: Help getting started with Chainsaw V2 Hi, Must have missed something! I have my log4j (actually nlog4j) set up quite nicely. I deployed recently to our production boxes and thought it would be good to keep an eye on it remotely. 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