Hey Sir, It is great. Stay Blessed.
Regards Muhammad Asif On Mon, Feb 9, 2015 at 5:57 PM, Eugene Istomin <e.isto...@edss.ee> wrote: > Rainer, > > Good luck! =) > Hope we will see the rocket-science features of Rsyslog normalization. > /---/ > */Best regards,/* > /Eugene Istomin/ > > > > > Hi all, > > > > finally, I can dispense some word on upcoming work for liblognorm. > > > > The short story is that I will have ample time in the next months to > > seriously work on and improve liblognorm, including some new tooling to > > make it easier to use, and make it usuable as a stand-alone tool. This > will > > become available to the rsyslog project via the mmnormalize module. > > > > The full story is a bit longer ;) As some of you may already know, I have > > decided to brush up my academic credentials a bit and I am working on > my > > MSc. I have gotten the opportunity to work on the topic of log > > normalization for my thesis. This, of course, is no implementation work, > > but I plan to use liblognorm as a working sample of whatever comes out > of > > the thesis and plan to implement and proof ideas as they come up > (using > > liblognorm as a testbed like I did with rsyslog during the IETF syslog > > standadization process). > > > > As such, I will try to develop liblognorm side-by-side with concept > > development, but I may run into some subtle issue of original > authorship: > > the thesis of course must contain my own work and any third-party > > suggestions in regard to algorithms must be quoted and can not count > > against thesis work. So in a strange way the more good suggestions I > get, > > even for things I already considered, the more I run into trouble with > the > > thesis. Pure feedback like "this does not work for my environment" is no > > problem, but sketches of algorithms are. So this is a bit complicated, > > especially with the regular open source development model on ones > mind. > > I'll still try to work on that slippery slope, but may switch to a > private > > archive and "silence mode" if this turns out to become a real problem. In > > any case, once the thesis is done I am more than open to discuss any > > further suggestions. > > > > What I have on my mind for liblognorm is much more than wiggeling a bit > > with it. What we currently use is actually a proof of concept (a useful > > one, obviously), but there are more than a couple of rough edges. I > think > > the core algorithm can be improved, if not replaced, and there is much > more > > work needed to aid in developing and maintaining sample bases. I have > some > > semi-automatic process for the creation of sample bases on my mind, > but > > that's something that really must be investigated first. Also, I think we > > need a different, better, description language, ... and so on. > > > > I have talked with Adiscon and I will work only part-time during the > thesis > > period and the prep work. That means I will be working less actively on > > adding new features to rsyslog, but I am able to look at bug reports and > > other important things. Actually, from a rsyslog PoV, I'll be working on > a > > big feature that is even better log normalization capability. > > > > I need to do some prep work before I can start with the actual thesis > work. > > Most importantly, I need a set, hopefully large and diverse, of actual > log > > messages. The better this set, the better most probably the end result > will > > be (some heuristics will be involved for sure). I hope to receive > community > > support in collecting the log set. But I'll detail that in another mail. > > > > Finally, I need to say that I am super-excited about this ability to > > combine thesis work with something that I had on my mind for quite a > while > > but that I probably would realistically never have been able to look at > in > > this depth. And the implementation hopefully will be useful for the > > community as well. So it's a win-win-win situation from my PoV. > > > > Rainer > > _______________________________________________ > > rsyslog mailing list > > http://lists.adiscon.net/mailman/listinfo/rsyslog > > http://www.rsyslog.com/professional-services/ > > What's up with rsyslog? Follow https://twitter.com/rgerhards > > NOTE WELL: This is a PUBLIC mailing list, posts are ARCHIVED by a myriad > of > > sites beyond our control. 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