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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