> -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] [mailto:rsyslog- > [email protected]] On Behalf Of Kenneth Holter > Sent: Wednesday, February 04, 2009 10:13 AM > To: rsyslog-users > Subject: Re: [rsyslog] Configuring rsyslog failover > > 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?
No! ;) As I said, #2 is a failover scenario - it does not spool but rather send the messags to another (failover) server if the primary fails. Rainer > > > > > 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 _______________________________________________ rsyslog mailing list http://lists.adiscon.net/mailman/listinfo/rsyslog http://www.rsyslog.com
