Thanks for the quick reply. You're right, it's not a failover solution by definition. I see now that I should have outlined my needs... What I'm aiming at, at least for now, is a semi-failover solution: If the syslog server (i.e. loghost) goes down, the clients should simply spool the messages until the server gets back online.
Back to the examples I linked to: They both seem to provide the functionality I'm looking for. Is that correct? If so: what's the difference between them? On 2/4/09, Rainer Gerhards <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi Kenneth, > > the first link does NOT describe a failover case. In the first link, > data is queued while the syslogd is not available. A failover case > (described in link two) is that if one syslogd goes down, data is sent > to another. This is not done in case 1: there, messages are queued while > the syslogd is down and sent to *the same syslogd* when it is up again. > So no second syslogd involved in case 1, so this is no failover > scenario. > > HTH > Rainer > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: [email protected] [mailto:rsyslog- > > [email protected]] On Behalf Of Kenneth Holter > > Sent: Wednesday, February 04, 2009 9:59 AM > > To: [email protected] > > Subject: [rsyslog] Configuring rsyslog failover > > > > Hello list. > > > > > > We're running rsyslog 2.0.6 downloaded from RHN, and are about to set > > up > > reliability/failover. I've found two setup tutorials for this: > > > > > > 1. http://www.rsyslog.com/doc-rsyslog_reliable_forwarding.html > > 2. http://wiki.rsyslog.com/index.php/FailoverSyslogServer > > > > It seems like both setups configure reliable transfer, but using a > > completely different syntax. Is it so that the former one is the > syntax > > for > > newer versions of rsyslog? > > > > Regards, > > Kenneth Holter > > _______________________________________________ > > 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
