Re: [ipxe-devel] Custom syslog port

2020-11-18 Thread Michael Schaller
Geert, I think you have a point here. Let me try to answer that as well... My motivation for this mail thread was to test the waters if this is a valid feature request before I actually spend too much time implementing it. My expectations were to have a good discussion whether this feature

Re: [ipxe-devel] Custom syslog port

2020-11-18 Thread Michael Brown
On 18/11/2020 11:46, Michael Schaller wrote: Michael, a syslog URI sounds like a good idea to me. I'm not aware of any RFC other than https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-lear-ietf-syslog-uri-00, which proposes a rather odd URI syntax IMHO. Others seem to use URIs like `[tcp/udp]://host:port` or

Re: [ipxe-devel] Custom syslog port

2020-11-17 Thread Michael Brown
On 17/11/2020 20:44, Geert Stappers wrote: On Tue, Nov 17, 2020 at 08:17:35PM +0100, Michael Schaller wrote: On Tue, Nov 17, 2020 at 6:08 PM "Please elaborate" wrote: On Tue, Nov 17, 2020 at 05:54:04PM +0100, Michael Schaller wrote: So are there any comments or opinions on this feature

Re: [ipxe-devel] Custom syslog port

2020-11-17 Thread Michael Brown
On 12/11/2020 12:56, Michael Schaller wrote: We do automated installation testing for a whole array of different hardware models (similar to https://autotest.github.io/). Each machine logs to a dedicated syslog endpoint so that we have one dedicated log per installation attempt per machine. We

Re: [ipxe-devel] Custom syslog port

2020-11-17 Thread Geert Stappers
On Tue, Nov 17, 2020 at 08:17:35PM +0100, Michael Schaller wrote: > On Tue, Nov 17, 2020 at 6:08 PM "Please elaborate" wrote: > > > > On Tue, Nov 17, 2020 at 05:54:04PM +0100, Michael Schaller wrote: > > > So are there any comments or opinions on this feature request? > > > > Please elaborate >

Re: [ipxe-devel] Custom syslog port

2020-11-17 Thread P e
On Tue, Nov 17, 2020 at 05:54:04PM +0100, Michael Schaller wrote: > So are there any comments or opinions on this feature request? Please elaborate ___ ipxe-devel mailing list ipxe-devel@lists.ipxe.org https://lists.ipxe.org/mailman/listinfo/ipxe-devel

Re: [ipxe-devel] Custom syslog port

2020-11-12 Thread Michael Brown
On 12/11/2020 11:46, Michael Schaller wrote: We use a central syslog service that provides syslog endpoints on a per-host basis with a random port per endpoint. How hard would it be to add an iPXE setting that allows to configure the syslog port? Something like `set syslog-port PORT` or `set

Re: [ipxe-devel] Custom syslog port

2020-11-12 Thread Geert Stappers
On Thu, Sep 9935, 1993 at 12:46:44PM +0100, Michael Schaller wrote: > Hi everyone, > > We use a central syslog service that provides syslog endpoints on a > per-host basis with a random port per endpoint. > > How hard would it be to add an iPXE setting that allows to configure the > syslog port?