On Thu, Aug 08, 2013 at 04:44:01AM -0400, Balamurugan Arumugam wrote: > > > ----- Original Message ----- > > From: "Niels de Vos" <ndevos@xxxxxxxxxx> > > To: "Balamurugan Arumugam" <bala@xxxxxxxxxxx> > > Cc: gluster-devel@xxxxxxxxxx, gluster-users@xxxxxxxxxxx > > Sent: Tuesday, August 6, 2013 8:48:58 PM > > Subject: Re: new glusterfs logging framework > > > > On Tue, Jul 30, 2013 at 05:29:43AM -0400, Balamurugan Arumugam wrote: > > > > > > Hi All, > > > > > > Recently new logging framework was introduced [1][2][3] in glusterfs > > > master branch. You could read more about this on doc/logging.txt. In > > > brief, current log target is moved to syslog and user has an option to > > > this new logging at compile time (passing '--disable-syslog' to > > > ./configure or '--without syslog' to rpmbuild) and run time (having > > > a file /var/log/glusterd/logger.conf and restarting gluster services). > > > > > > As rsyslog is used as syslog server in Fedora and CentOS/RHEL and > > > default configuration of rsyslog does not have any rule specific to > > > gluster logs, you see all logs are in /var/log/messages in JSON > > > format. > > > > As the below does not function on RHEL-6 with its own rsyslog (no > > rsyslog-mmjsonparse available), I am creating an empty > > /var/lib/glusterd/logger.conf which (after a restart) makes glusterd and > > friends to log to their standard files again. > > > > Do you have some progress on the rsyslog-mmjsonparse for rhel5 and > > rhel6? > > > > mmcount is a rsyslog plugin (developed by me) available rsyslog > upstream which tracks each gluster log using error codes. The error > code is the entity enabled by gluster logging framework. This module > is back ported to rhel6 which does tracking and json parsing. I am in > the process of submitting this to rhel 6 downstream. I haven't tried > rhel5 yet and I will do that too. Very cool! > > Also, it would really be nice to include that > > /etc/rsyslog.d/gluster.conf in the rpms and add a dependency on the > > rsyslog-mmjsonparse package. Or, provide a /var/lib/glusterd/logger.conf > > for the distributions that do not have rsyslog-mmjsonparse. > > > > Yes. I had similar thought on this to do so. I will send the fix soon. Great, thanks. Also, consider to move the file to /etc/glusterd where all configuration files that sysadmins may edit are kept. Niels
