--On Monday, April 07, 2014 09:00:10 AM +0200 Rainer Gerhards <[email protected]> wrote:
the idea of creating an interactive tool the generate rsyslog configurations has become a first PoC. It's online since today. Have a quick look at http://www.rsyslog.com/rsyslog-configuration-builder/
For our current use of rsyslog it is not critical that the tool be able to read or write a complete configuration. We heavily use wild card includes, maintain configuration file fragments, and deploy the configurations with puppet. It is worth the effort to create a tool that would preserve our fragments. What I would dearly love help with is creating the individual fragments. For example, it would really be nice for the tool would provide a list of properties in the appropriate places when creating a filter. I was going to suggest that it is limiting to restrict 'interactive' to just web applications. Then I played with your example for a bit it became apparent that creating a CLI accessible tool to do the same thing would sacrifice the clarity of the web tool. What would be useful as a command line tool would be an "rsyslog lint" utility. Something that went beyond rsyslogd -N1 and was critical of poor formatting, obsolete syntax, and inefficient constructs. The bottom line is that I think that a web configuration tool would be very useful and that it does not have to be exhaustively complete to be very useful. Bill -- Bill MacAllister Infrastructure Delivery Group, Stanford University _______________________________________________ rsyslog mailing list http://lists.adiscon.net/mailman/listinfo/rsyslog http://www.rsyslog.com/professional-services/ What's up with rsyslog? Follow https://twitter.com/rgerhards NOTE WELL: This is a PUBLIC mailing list, posts are ARCHIVED by a myriad of sites beyond our control. PLEASE UNSUBSCRIBE and DO NOT POST if you DON'T LIKE THAT.
