syslog facility

[Martin Pala]

Hi,

i have one question - what about to add possibility to choose syslog 
facility to monit?

In our environment (tens of servers) we use central syslog server, which 
catches feeds from all services. With some more feature rich syslog 
servers (such as syslog-ng) it is not issue to have the same facility 
for different targets (you can filter logs with the same facility by 
program name), but with OS default and widely used syslog (linux, 
solaris, ...) the only way is to set other facility (for example local3, 
etc.) which can be then redirected to other syslog server (all or 
nothing rule).

example:

user.debug      /var/log/messages    #system messages which we won't for 
some reason to send to central-syslog server
local3.debug   @central-syslog        #monit messages which should be 
send to cetral-syslog server

If it will be possible to set local3 facility in monitrc, then it will 
be easy to do it without changing system syslog server SW.

What about it?

I'm +1 for adding syslog facility option to monit.

Cheers,
Martin