UDP Archives - rsyslog

Using a strgen module to write into a database

By Adiscon SupportPosted on April 15, 2011May 30, 2018Posted in FAQTagged 5.8.0, database, mysql, rsyslog, sm_cust_bindcdr, stable, strgen, syslog, transformation, UDP

In many cases, log messages have to be transformed. This can be done in various ways with the property replacer for example. But processing messages this way can be rather slow, since the transformation part is no native code. In this case, strgen (string generator) is the way to go. A string generator is a […]

Storing and forwarding remote messages

By Adiscon SupportPosted on April 1, 2011May 30, 2018Posted in More complex scenariosTagged Guides for rsyslog, More complex scenarios, rsyslog, ruleset, syslog, TCP, template, UDP

In this scenario, we want to store remote sent messages into a specific local file and forward the received messages to another syslog server. Local messages should still be locally stored. Things to think about How should this work out? Basically, we need a syslog listener for TCP and one for UDP, the local logging […]

Using the syslog receiver module

By Adiscon SupportPosted on March 29, 2011May 30, 2018Posted in Basic ConfigurationTagged config snippet, rsyslog, syslog, TCP, UDP

We want to use rsyslog in its general purpose. We want to receive syslog. In rsyslog, we have two possibilities to achieve that. Things to think about First of all, we will determine, which way of syslog reception we want to use. We can receive syslog via UDP or TCP. The config statements are each […]