Hi David, Thanks for the idea, I've done that: *.* @@<remote1>:514 $ActionExecOnlyWhenPreviousIsSuspended on *.* @@<remote2>:514 $ActionExecOnlyWhenPreviousIsSuspended off
And now failover or failback doesn't work at all. Even when I just stop rsyslog on one of the destinations. The rest of my rsyslog.conf is just default RHEL. Am I missing something here? Kind regards, Max -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of David Lang Sent: 03 July 2014 06:59 To: rsyslog-users Subject: Re: [rsyslog] Failover destination doesn't work if TCP connection not closed properly? even with drop a failover should work however, I think you have a slight misunderstanding of what & does. & doesn't mean "do the same test as the prior one", it says "if the prior test matched, do this as well" so try the config listing *.* instead of & David Lang On Wed, 2 Jul 2014, Chris 'Chipper' Chiapusio wrote: > > are you using '-j REJECT --reject-with icmp-port-unreachable' > > or just the default '-j DROP'? > > > DROP tells iptables to drop the packet on the floor like it never > existed, giving the sending host no indication as to what happened. > REJECT will respond with something and you can specify what that something is. > > Chip > > On Tue, Jul 01, 2014 at 11:38:21AM +0000, Max Williams wrote: >> Hi, >> I am trying to get reliable failover logging to 2 remote hosts using >> this >> config: >> >> *.* @@<remote1>:514 >> $ActionExecOnlyWhenPreviousIsSuspended on & @@<remote2>:514 >> $ActionExecOnlyWhenPreviousIsSuspended off >> >> This works fine if I stop syslog on the remote1 host, the rsyslog >> client host fails over and fails back with no problems. But if I use >> iptables to drop TCP/514 on remote1 server then on the client host >> the TCP connection goes to CLOSE_WAIT and then to LAST_ACK & SYN_SENT >> and finally to just SYN_SENT. It then just stays as SYN_SENT >> indefinitely and rsyslog does not failover to the second destination: >> tcp 0 1 <client host>:40416 <remote1>:514 >> SYN_SENT 3393/rsyslogd >> >> I've read Rainer's blog >> post<http://blog.gerhards.net/2011/03/using-failover-and-asynchornous >> -actions.html> and I do not have "$ActionQueueType LinkedList" set. >> >> Is there some configuration I am missing? 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