I'm using nxlog to watch two vCenter log files on a Windows Server 2008
system and I have a very simple config. Nxlog began failing yesterday
after a file was rotated. Here's my config:
<Extension syslog>
Module xm_syslog
</Extension>
<Input in1>
Module im_file
File "C:\ProgramData\VMware\VMware
VirtualCenter\Logs\vpxd-[0-5][0-9].log"
SavePos TRUE
</Input>
<Input in2>
Module im_file
File "C:\ProgramData\VMware\VMware
VirtualCenter\Logs\vpxd-alert-[0-5][0-9].log"
SavePos TRUE
</Input>
<Processor buffer1>
Module pm_buffer
MaxSize 1024
Type Mem
WarnLimit 512
</Processor>
<Processor buffer2>
Module pm_buffer
MaxSize 1024
Type Mem
WarnLimit 512
</Processor>
<Output out1>
Module om_udp
Host <ip>
Port 514
</Output>
<Output out2>
Module om_udp
Host <ip>
Port 514
</Output>
<Route 1>
Path in1 => buffer1 => out1
</Route>
<Route 2>
Path in2 => buffer2 => out2
</Route>
vCenter log rotation is a bit odd so I'm thinking that it's at least
partially causing this problem. You can see from above the filename I'm
watching. This file is created as vpxd-01.log and increments *up* from
there. The files are rotated when they hit 50MB and old logs get
compressed after two new files are created, e.g. vpxd-03 is created and
vpxd-01 gets compressed.
But yesterday the first file that nxlog had started watching (since being
installed last week) was rotated, causing this error:
2013-12-28 19:41:08 WARNING input file does not exist:
C:\ProgramData\VMware\VMware VirtualCenter\Logs\vpxd-47.log
It repeats 12 times across the next 24 hours and then nxlog failed entirely
until I restarted the service yesterday morning.
Hopefully my explanation makes sense. I ended up losing about six hours of
logs so I want to make sure this doesn't happen again. Does anybody have
any solution or suggestions?
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