Thanks Jeff. I'll take a look at the multipart source too.

On Thu, Oct 16, 2014 at 8:52 PM, Jeff Lord <[email protected]> wrote:

> You will get better perf out of the multiport syslog source
>
>
> On Wednesday, October 15, 2014, Sharninder <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> I just looked at the existing syslogtcp source and it seems it does take
>> pains to parse the hostname from the message and I think that is the best
>> bet for me. Ofcourse, it might fail for a few devices, but I'll just have
>> to think of something else for those.
>>
>> --
>> Sharninder
>>
>>
>> On Thu, Oct 16, 2014 at 10:40 AM, Sharninder <[email protected]>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Yes Jeff. That's a possiblity but I'm not sure (actually pretty sure)
>>> that there would be a some random device which will not send their logs in
>>> the proper format and my regex will break. This is the way I'll implement
>>> it if I can't find anything better.
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>> Sharninder
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On Thu, Oct 16, 2014 at 10:22 AM, Jeff Lord <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>
>>>> You can also use a regex interceptor to extract hostname from the
>>>> message (assuming it's there) and put that in an event header. From there
>>>> you can route and create partitions with the header.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Wednesday, October 15, 2014, Hari Shreedharan <
>>>> [email protected]> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> The Multiport syslog source can add the port number on which the data
>>>>> was received to the event headers. You can use with a multiplexing channel
>>>>> selector to separate this to different channels.
>>>>>
>>>>> Thanks,
>>>>> Hari
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> On Wed, Oct 15, 2014 at 9:45 PM, Sharninder <[email protected]>
>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> Hi Guys,
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I'm trying to implement a system to archive syslogs using flume. I've
>>>>>> played around with it a bit but haven't really been able to figure out a
>>>>>> way to segregate logs according to the host they're coming from? Is 
>>>>>> there a
>>>>>> way for me to add the hostname to the event header somehow? I can then 
>>>>>> use
>>>>>> either an interceptor to read the header or even a custom sink to deal 
>>>>>> with
>>>>>> events based on the hostname.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> --
>>>>>> Sharninder
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>
>>

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