Hi HKS, Thanks for your good advice. It's helpful.
Patrick (private) HKS wrote: > On Fri, Dec 12, 2008 at 1:48 AM, Patrick Shen <[email protected]> wrote: >> Hi Rainer, >> >> We're using rsyslog(3.20.0) as our central logging server and clients. >> >> We experienced an DISK ERROR on server last month. At that time, we were >> using TCP to transport logs from client to server. And we also setup the >> configuration just like [1]. But unfortunately our central logging >> server got DISK error for one hour. So we lost logfiles of that period >> of time. >> >> I've a look at doc [1] carefully, I guess "RELIABLE" only means when >> server got offline or rsyslogd on it isn't running, then clients will >> save logs in buffer or write to a file on disk. If server is still >> online and rsyslogd is running, but with IO/Error or Disk Full, then >> client will still transfer logs to server even with RELP, coz I guess >> RELP only protects logs could be transferred via network successfully, >> it doesn't care the logs are written successfully to file on server. Am >> I right? > > Yes. RELP Is a protocol for the reliable exchange of event logs over a > network. What the destination daemon does once it has the logs is no > concern of the client's. > > >> So I guess if we need to prevent this, we need do some work on server? >> Do we have some "directives" options that we could transfer logs to a >> failover server if local disk fails or buffer in memory before disk got >> corrected? > > Yes: http://wiki.rsyslog.com/index.php/FailoverSyslogServer > > -HKS > >> [1]: http://www.rsyslog.com/doc-rsyslog_reliable_forwarding.html >> >> Thanks, >> >> -- >> Patrick Shen >> Operations Engineer >> >> _______________________________________________ >> rsyslog mailing list >> http://lists.adiscon.net/mailman/listinfo/rsyslog >> http://www.rsyslog.com >> > _______________________________________________ > rsyslog mailing list > http://lists.adiscon.net/mailman/listinfo/rsyslog > http://www.rsyslog.com _______________________________________________ rsyslog mailing list http://lists.adiscon.net/mailman/listinfo/rsyslog http://www.rsyslog.com
