On Wed, 7 May 2014, Josh Bitto wrote:

After looking at it yeah I have to agree.

Do have another problem though that I'm trying to figure out.

When configuring templates to write incoming logs to a file, I'm accustom to 
the legacy version where you do something like...

$template name,"/var/log/pathtofile.log"
If
        {conditions}
Then {?name
Stop
}

I've looked at the template documentation and the default template example 
given, but a little confused as to actually write to a file. Or am I 
misinterpreting  the function that it does.

well, everything there except the write to the file is the new syntax :-)

? is only needed if you are doing a dynamic filename, and you can continue to use it as you always have

www.rsyslog.com/doc/omfile.html

in the new action() format, you set DynaFile='template' instead of file='filename'

David Lang




-----Original Message-----
From: [email protected] 
[mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of David Lang
Sent: Wednesday, May 07, 2014 12:44 PM
To: rsyslog-users
Subject: Re: [rsyslog] Rsyslog w/ logstash-elasticsearch-kibana server

at my old job we had ossec configured to send to rsyslog

personally I really dislike the 'write to a file and then scrape it with 
another program' approach to logs

Yes, it handles cases where your logserver is down, but you should have HA so 
that's a very rare case.

But it causes a bunch of headaches

1. a lot more disk I/O

2. polling to check if the file has changed

3. headaches if the files roll too fast

4. problems deciding when you can delete the files

It's just so much easier to pass the data directly to rsyslog and let it deal 
with everything :-)

David Lang



On Wed, 7 May 2014, Josh Bitto wrote:

Date: Wed, 7 May 2014 09:44:43 -0700
From: Josh Bitto <[email protected]>
Reply-To: rsyslog-users <[email protected]>
To: rsyslog-users <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: [rsyslog] Rsyslog w/ logstash-elasticsearch-kibana server

Hello Everyone and Good Morning!

I have a new question for you all. Does anyone have this current setup with an 
OSSEC server as well? I'm wondering which would be the better option to do. 
Just create an imfile for Rsyslog to monitor the logs from OSSEC or forward 
them to rsyslog. I'm curious to find out if anyone else has this implemented 
too!


Josh
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