Hi, It's been a while but I think the resolution was that one needs to provide the mdcId attribute in the Syslog appender configuration when using the RFC5424 layout. It's not documented but evident when looking in the source. Not sure this behaviour changed in log4j2 2.1.
Regards, /David On 13 January 2015 at 16:32, Gary Gregory <[email protected]> wrote: > Can you please try to see if you get the same result with 2.1? > > Thank you, > Gary > > On Thu, Oct 30, 2014 at 7:47 PM, David KOCH <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Hello, > > > > Log4j2 version is 2.0.2, my Syslog appender is configured like so: > > > > <Syslog name="LogStash" format="RFC5424" host="192.168.232.191" > > port="5000" protocol="UDP"/> > > > > and I get the following exception: > > > > 2014-10-31 00:36:40,916 DEBUG Calling createAppender on class > > org.apache.logging.log4j.core.appender.SyslogAppender for element Syslog > > with params(host="192.168.232.191", port="5000", protocol="UDP", null, > > reconnectionDelay="0", immediateFail="true", name="LogStash", > > immediateFlush="true", ignoreExceptions="true", facility="LOCAL0", > > id="bidder", enterpriseNumber="18060", includeMdc="true", mdcId="null", > > mdcPrefix="null", eventPrefix="null", newLine="false", > > newLineEscape="null", appName="null", messageId="audit", > > mdcExcludes="null", mdcIncludes="null", mdcRequired="null", > > format="RFC5424", null, > > Configuration(/Users/xxxx/Work/xxxxx/scripts/log4j2.xml), > charset="UTF-8", > > exceptionPattern="null", ={}, advertise="false") > > 2014-10-31 00:36:41,018 DEBUG Generated plugins in 0.099533 seconds, > > packages: [org.apache.logging.log4j.core], preload: false. > > 2014-10-31 00:36:41,019 ERROR catching > > java.lang.reflect.InvocationTargetException > > at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method) > > at > > > > > sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:57) > > at > > > > > sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:43) > > at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:606) > > at > > > > > org.apache.logging.log4j.core.config.plugins.util.PluginBuilder.build(PluginBuilder.java:133) > > at > > > > > org.apache.logging.log4j.core.config.AbstractConfiguration.createPluginObject(AbstractConfiguration.java:744) > > at > > > > > org.apache.logging.log4j.core.config.AbstractConfiguration.createConfiguration(AbstractConfiguration.java:683) > > at > > > > > org.apache.logging.log4j.core.config.AbstractConfiguration.createConfiguration(AbstractConfiguration.java:675) > > at > > > > > org.apache.logging.log4j.core.config.AbstractConfiguration.doConfigure(AbstractConfiguration.java:349) > > at > > > > > org.apache.logging.log4j.core.config.AbstractConfiguration.start(AbstractConfiguration.java:150) > > at > > > > > org.apache.logging.log4j.core.LoggerContext.setConfiguration(LoggerContext.java:364) > > at > > > > > org.apache.logging.log4j.core.LoggerContext.reconfigure(LoggerContext.java:422) > > at > > org.apache.logging.log4j.core.LoggerContext.start(LoggerContext.java:146) > > at > > > > > org.apache.logging.log4j.core.impl.Log4jContextFactory.getContext(Log4jContextFactory.java:85) > > at > > > > > org.apache.logging.log4j.core.impl.Log4jContextFactory.getContext(Log4jContextFactory.java:37) > > at org.apache.logging.log4j.LogManager.getContext(LogManager.java:269) > > at > > > > > org.apache.logging.slf4j.Log4jLoggerFactory$PrivateManager.getContext(Log4jLoggerFactory.java:98) > > at > > > > > org.apache.logging.slf4j.Log4jLoggerFactory.getContext(Log4jLoggerFactory.java:84) > > at > > > > > org.apache.logging.slf4j.Log4jLoggerFactory.getLogger(Log4jLoggerFactory.java:44) > > at org.slf4j.LoggerFactory.getLogger(LoggerFactory.java:277) > > at org.slf4j.LoggerFactory.getLogger(LoggerFactory.java:288) > > at > > > > > com.google.openbidder.server.ServiceWrapper.<clinit>(ServiceWrapper.java:62) > > at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method) > > at > > > > > sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:57) > > at > > > > > sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:43) > > at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:606) > > at org.codehaus.mojo.exec.ExecJavaMojo$1.run(ExecJavaMojo.java:293) > > at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:724) > > Caused by: java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: No structured id name was > > supplied > > at > > > > > org.apache.logging.log4j.message.StructuredDataId.<init>(StructuredDataId.java:92) > > at > > > > > org.apache.logging.log4j.core.layout.Rfc5424Layout.<init>(Rfc5424Layout.java:135) > > at > > > > > org.apache.logging.log4j.core.layout.Rfc5424Layout.createLayout(Rfc5424Layout.java:651) > > at > > > > > org.apache.logging.log4j.core.appender.SyslogAppender.createAppender(SyslogAppender.java:130) > > ... 28 more > > > > I don't get the same exception when I don't specify the format. What > could > > be wrong? > > > > Thank you, > > > > /David > > > > > > -- > E-Mail: [email protected] | [email protected] > Java Persistence with Hibernate, Second Edition > <http://www.manning.com/bauer3/> > JUnit in Action, Second Edition <http://www.manning.com/tahchiev/> > Spring Batch in Action <http://www.manning.com/templier/> > Blog: http://garygregory.wordpress.com > Home: http://garygregory.com/ > Tweet! http://twitter.com/GaryGregory >
