Hi, Considering only the config format it wouldn't be very hard to implement an alternative parser. On the other hand there are other cases when this will fall short. Windows group policy is just for windows, how about the rest? In a more complex setup you will have several files which contribute to the whole configuration, e.g. nxlog.conf snippets via include, ssl certificates and keys, pattern.xml for patterns, etc.
<ad>Our nx-log4ensics offering properly takes care of the above in addition to being able to monitor the agents.</ad> There are also various open source tools to handle configuration management at a large scale such as chef, puppet etc. I know each of these has it's advantages and disadvantages. Regards, Botond On Tue, 26 Nov 2013 17:01:24 +0000 "Mitzimberg, Justin" <justin.mitzimb...@portofportland.com> wrote: > It would seem that managing a few hundred computers nxlog conf files would > get difficult. The problem doesn't scale well, especially on Windows. I > propose allowing nxlog to use the INI format on Windows machines. This would > allow centralized management via active directory group policy preferences. > > 90% of the configuration declarations would work OOB, for example: > > <Processor buffer_udp> > Module pm_buffer > ## 1Mb buffer > MaxSize 512 > Type Mem > ## Warn at 512k > WarnLimit 256 > </Processor> > > Would look like: > > [Processor::buffer_udp] > Module=pm_buffer > ;## 1Mb buffer > MaxSize=512 > Type=Mem > ;## Warn at 512k > WarnLimit=256 > > This ugly to look at but it can be fully managed by group policy preferences. > > The only difficulties I see would be with EXEC blocks. Typically INI files > don't have multi-line entries and group policy preferences doesn't write them > however I think it can be worked around, primarily because EXEC blocks aren't > supposed to be multi-line, hence all the '\' escaping. > > With the rather uncreative use of multiple EXEC statements (e.g. EXEC1, > EXEC2, EXEC3) I think feature parity can be achieved. Again, it would look > ugly, but it would be manageable. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Rapidly troubleshoot problems before they affect your business. Most IT organizations don't have a clear picture of how application performance affects their revenue. With AppDynamics, you get 100% visibility into your Java,.NET, & PHP application. Start your 15-day FREE TRIAL of AppDynamics Pro! http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=84349351&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk _______________________________________________ nxlog-ce-users mailing list nxlog-ce-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/nxlog-ce-users
