Nova can do some stuff on logs too, FYI. Tim Cutts wrote: > On 4 Jan 2010, at 2:52 pm, [email protected] wrote: > >> Yes. You can do this. Here is a recipe with CF version 2. You'll >> have >> to figure out the Cf 3 way but the principle is the same. >> http://watson-wilson.ca/blog/cfcookbook.html#SECTION000200000000000000000 > > That method's a little unwieldy if you have large numbers of clients. > How large can a variable get? I personally have over 2200 machines > being managed by cfengine, and if I were to use that recipe, I'd have > a 24 kilobyte variable just to hold the names of all the machines. I > also have machines coming and going on an almost daily basis, so I'd > have to do something clever to populate that list from an external > module. > > Personally, I do log aggregation with a completely separate tool, > better suited for the job (Splunk, in our case). I use cfengine to > configure rsyslog on all of the clients to tell them where the Splunk > server is. > > Tim > >
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