SUMMARY: Configuring central syslog server

I think there were 15 respondents at last count, nearly all of whom agreed
that syslog-ng is the way to do this "sort by originating host" on a central
syslog machine. I've got it installed and configured, it's working just
fine.
 
Now all I have to do is get swatch compiled to watch the resulting files,
and that means getting all the perl modules it needs to compile, and that's
turning out to be really annoying, but that's another topic.
 
-- 
Andrew F. Maddox, Unix Systems Engineer
USEC, Inc. 301-564-3360
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From: sunmanagers-bounces@sunmanagers.org on behalf of Maddox, Andrew
Sent: Thu 9/2/2004 9:42 AM
To: 'Sunmanagers (sunmanagers@sunmanagers.org)'
Subject: Configuring central syslog server

I'm configuring one server to act as a central syslog server for my NOC.
Setting up the client machines to forward a copy of all their messages to it
with
*.* @LOGHOSTNAME
in syslog.conf is working - I restarted syslogd and inetd on the
LOGHOST-to-be, then generated a few messages from one of the clients, and
got the messages in /var/adm/messages.

So, now, to rehash a question I've seen many times, but never seen a SUMMARY
for, can I get my logserver to direct messages from specific clients into
either separate files or different directories, using the native Solaris
(2.8) syslog facility?

That is, I'd like something like
/var/adm/messages for localhost messages
And then
/var/adm/messages.host1
/var/adm/messages.host2
Or
/var/adm/host1/messages
/var/adm/host2/messages
For messages from the other (client) machines. Can I do this? I can't see a
way in the documentation, the manpages, or anywhere I've googled for. Do I
need to install a replacement for syslog? If syslog-ng, for example, can do
this, then I'll give it a try!

Thanks in advance and all that,
Andy

--
Andrew F. Maddox, Unix Systems Engineer
USEC, Inc. 301-564-3360
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