Hi Rainer,
Yes, I would be very glad to help if you have the time to develop that! Thanks! Christian On 25 May 2011 10:12, Rainer Gerhards <[email protected]> wrote: > Christian, > > would you also be available for some tests *if* I find time to look into the > HA specific calls? I don't have an environment yet and it would probably take > me too long to set one up for a quick test. No promise thought that I can > implement the support quickly, depends on what else is going on... > > Rainer > >> -----Original Message----- >> From: [email protected] [mailto:rsyslog- >> [email protected]] On Behalf Of Christian Lete >> Sent: Wednesday, May 25, 2011 10:10 AM >> To: rsyslog-users >> Subject: Re: [rsyslog] High availability on rsyslog (cluster) >> >> Hi, >> >> Thank you all for you help and suggestions, I will do some tests and >> let you know how works for me. >> >> Regards, >> >> Christian >> >> On 24 May 2011 08:14, <[email protected]> wrote: >> > One interesting twist to deal with, when a system is not active, it >> probably >> > still wants to send it's logs somewhere. >> > >> > two ways of addresssing this >> > >> > 1. two configs, switching between active and passive changes which >> config >> > you use >> > >> > 2. two instances, one used by the local box to send it's logs, the >> other to >> > receive logs from elsewhere. >> > >> > David Lang >> > >> > On Mon, 23 May 2011, [email protected] wrote: >> > >> >> take a look at >> >> >> >> http://linux-ha.org/wiki/Resource_Agents >> >> >> >> and >> >> >> >> http://www.linux-ha.org/doc/dev-guides/ra-dev-guide.html >> >> >> >> David Lang >> >> >> >> On Tue, 24 May 2011, Rainer Gerhards wrote: >> >> >> >>> Date: Tue, 24 May 2011 08:09:28 +0200 >> >>> From: Rainer Gerhards <[email protected]> >> >>> Reply-To: rsyslog-users <[email protected]> >> >>> To: rsyslog-users <[email protected]> >> >>> Subject: Re: [rsyslog] High availability on rsyslog (cluster) >> >>> >> >>> Thx -- sounds interesting and probably not too much work to do... >> >>> >> >>> Rainer >> >>> >> >>>> -----Original Message----- >> >>>> From: [email protected] [mailto:rsyslog- >> >>>> [email protected]] On Behalf Of [email protected] >> >>>> Sent: Tuesday, May 24, 2011 8:08 AM >> >>>> To: rsyslog-users >> >>>> Subject: Re: [rsyslog] High availability on rsyslog (cluster) >> >>>> >> >>>> take a look at linux-ha >> >>>> >> >>>> It's a framework to manage HA (including active/active load >> sharing, >> >>>> quorums, etc) >> >>>> >> >>>> it extends the traditional init.d startup scripts to also include >> a >> >>>> 'status' call to tell if the service is active or not. the >> framework >> >>>> calls >> >>>> this service periodically and if the service fails, it does a >> failover. >> >>>> With the correct configuration (and software), it can do sub- >> second >> >>>> failover. >> >>>> >> >>>> David Lang >> >>>> >> >>>> >> >>>> On >> >>>> Tue, 24 May 2011, Rainer Gerhards wrote: >> >>>> >> >>>>> 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 >> >>>>> >> >>>> _______________________________________________ >> >>>> 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 >> >> >> > _______________________________________________ >> > 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 > _______________________________________________ rsyslog mailing list http://lists.adiscon.net/mailman/listinfo/rsyslog http://www.rsyslog.com
