Re: Syslog facility

[John Sechrest]

As you are doing specific debugging, I think it would be 
valuable to be able to turn on and off different levels of 
logging at different spots. 

Certainly choosing where to syslog to is a good thing. 
But this should be adjustable at different points.

As we deploy our web cluster, we are finding that syslog is 
a key bottleneck in system performance. 

It may be worth looking at how syslog effects performance.

If you have 5000 machines all running cfengine, all 
syslogging to the same server at the same time,
I bet things get slow




Chip Seraphine <chip@trdlnk.com> writes:

 % I was imagining something in the control: section something like:
 % 
 % control:
 %      SyslogFacility = ( local1 )
 % 
 % ...and then everything that goes to syslog would dump to local1.
 % 
 % Priority, obviously, depends on the event being logged.  Personally, I 
 % would like the informational messages to go to .info (or .debug) instead 
 % of always to .notice; it would make log analysis easier....
 % 
 % Mark.Burgess@iu.hio.no wrote:
 % > A while ago, it was suggested to add the possibility to set the
 % > syslog "facility" option from the cfagent config file.
 % > 
 % > I'd like to ask folks what kind of settings are desirable.
 % > How do you think this should look?
 % > 
 % > Thanks for feedback
 % > Mark
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