On Sat, Dec 8, 2012 at 6:37 AM, Leon Fauster <leonfauster@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>wrote:
> Am 07.12.2012 um 18:09 schrieb Gelen James:
> > Has any one used any log archiving tools? Please suggest one that's
> your favorite.
> >
> > Presently I have a project to archive raw log files on hundreds of
> Centos boxes to a central server and stored there for two years. The basic
> requirements of the project are:
> >
> > 1, The log files will be sent from hundreds of Centos clients with a
> client side agent or similar.
> > 2, better there is a client side configuration file which specify log
> files to archive
> > 3, a server side configuration file specified where to logs from host (
> or host groups), and the directory structure to store log files
> > 4, better there is a way to remove duplication of log files, i.e. md5
> checksum, time stamp, etc.
> >
> > Open source or commercial are both fine. And there is no need to do the
> indexing or other further processing, just raw files is fine.
>
>
> what about syslog's capability to send all logs to a
> central syslog server (check /etc/sysconfig/syslog for the server
> part and /etc/syslog.conf for the client part)?
>
>
+1 for a centralized syslog server ... it's the ideal tool for the job
rsyslog is part of the CentOS Base for EL6
syslog-ng is packaged in EPEL (if it's preferred over sysklogd or rsyslog)
> applications/scripts can log also via "logger" - like
> echo test | /usr/bin/logger -i -t "appname" -p user.notice
>
> the archive part can be done on the syslog server centrally
> (e.g. use rsnapshot to provide daily, weekly, monthly cascades of /var/log)
>
> --
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