David and all, are you aware of any high availability APIs that would enable rsyslog to do some kind of automatic failover in a cluster environment? I have never specifically programmed for that and wonder if there are any options.
Rainer > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] [mailto:rsyslog- > [email protected]] On Behalf Of [email protected] > Sent: Tuesday, May 24, 2011 12:30 AM > To: rsyslog-users > Subject: Re: [rsyslog] High availability on rsyslog (cluster) > > depending on how active your logging is, you could watch the logs and > say > that if you don't receive any logs for 1 min (or whatever time is > approprate), somthing is wrong. > > you could also generate known UDP logs to yourself and alert if they > don't > show up. > > David Lang > > On Mon, 23 May 2011, Christian Lete wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > I have a small question, I would need to setup an rsyslog > > receiver/forwarder, listening on udp port, since some clients, only > > support this option. I would need this service to be highly > > available(I don't want to have two machines and having duplicated > > information), but since this udp, I can't be for sure if the service > > is running fine. What I thought is to indirectly check it, by having > > another port listening on tcp and checking the tcp service, if the > > service is not running on tcp I would assume the whole system is down > > and would failover to the other instance of the cluster, that's the > > only way I could think of, do you currently have another way? > > > > > > thank you very much, > > > > Regards, > > > > Christian > > _______________________________________________ > > 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
