Re: syslog facility

[Rory Toma]

I agree (+1) and I'll put it in next week (after I finish rewriting some
Makefiles at work...)

On Fri, 2003-05-30 at 13:55, Martin Pala wrote:
> 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
> 
> 
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