With TCP it appears the clients remote logging stops indefinitely, in fact even when a failback occurs it still isnt logging messages to the primary server until I restart the client rsyslog process.
With UDP behaviour is as expected, with a ~20-30 second failover period where messages are lost (settings not tweaked in anyway) I am using 3.22 simply as it is shipped with RHEL5/CENTOS5, but would be interest to try a more recent version. Which leads me to think perhaps the best solution may be: Rsyslog clients UDP -> prd-syslog-000 Syslog clients & devices UDP -> prd-syslog-000 Prd-syslog-002 TCP -> prd-syslog-001 So prd-syslog-002 is only ever hit when prd-syslog-001 is down, and can reliably queue and push messages to prd-syslog-001 once it is back online. Thanks, Rob -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of [email protected] Sent: Wednesday, 19 January 2011 2:00 PM To: rsyslog-users Subject: Re: [rsyslog] rsyslog with heartbeat how long did you wait for the failover to take place? the first thing that will have to happen is that the sender will have to notice that the TCP connection doesn't work anymore, close it, and open another one. Since the system doesn't know what messages have actually been sent to the server (as opposed to mearly sent to the TCP stack on the sending machine), there will be some logs lost at failover time. the longer it takes the client to notice the problem, the worse this will be. version 3.22 is fairly old at this point, Rainer will have to weigh in on how long it should take to notice the failure. to fully avoid the lost messages issue, you would need to use RELP for your transport. I have opted to use UDP and accept that while the boxes are failing over, some logs will be lost (you can tune heartbeat for pretty short failover times, subsecond if you really push it) David Lang On Wed, 19 Jan 2011, Robert Jennings wrote: > I am running 2 rsyslog servers (prd-syslog-001, prd-syslog-002) sharing > a virtual IP managed by heartbeat (prd-syslog-000) > > > clients are configured to send logs to the virtualIP > > *.info;mail.none;authpriv.none;cron.none @@prd-syslog-000 > authpriv.* > @@prd-syslog-000 > local7.* > @@prd-syslog-000 > > > > > > I have found when the primary host goes down and the secondary takes > over, logs are not arriving at the secondary host unless I restart > rsyslog on the client, this was not the behaviour I was expecting. Is > there any default configuration that may be stopping logs from being > sent when the server sitting behind the virtual ip changes? > > > The functionality I was trying to achive is as follows: > > > * clients log to prd-syslog-000 > * heartbeat controls prd-syslog-000 address (prd-syslog-001 > primary, prd-syslog-002 on failover) > * prd-syslog-002 is configured to forward logs to prd-syslog-001 > * during downtime of prd-syslog-001 these logs will sit queued > * when prd-syslog-001 comes back up it will take over > prd-syslog-000 and start recieving client logs > * prd-syslog-002 will flush its queue back to prd-syslog-001 > > > The reason I am using this setup as opposed to logging to two rsyslog > hosts is to support devices that can only log to one host, and provide > one location with a consistent set of logs instead of two machines with > out of sync logs. > > running rsyslog-3.22 > > > Thanks, > Rob > > > > _______________________________________________ > rsyslog mailing list > http://lists.adiscon.net/mailman/listinfo/rsyslog > http://www.rsyslog.com > _______________________________________________ rsyslog mailing list http://lists.adiscon.net/mailman/listinfo/rsyslog http://www.rsyslog.com _______________________________________________ rsyslog mailing list http://lists.adiscon.net/mailman/listinfo/rsyslog http://www.rsyslog.com
