On Sat, Dec 8, 2012 at 6:37 AM, Leon Fauster <leonfauster at googlemail.com>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) > > -- > LF > > > > > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos >