Hi Friends
I am running centos 6.1 Virtual machine with rsyslog version 5 as central syslog server
I configured two hosts to send logs to the central syslog server.
Though I receive the logs it is not filtered & it is appended to local logs in /var/log/messages
I require some custom scripts for rsyslog.conf to filter out incoming remote logs from Xen server & VmWare esxi hosts
Remote log files can be like this /var/log/remote-logs/xen/<Ip address>-vm.start.log, etc
& var/log/remote-logs/vmware/<Ip address>-hostd.log, etc.
I want to rotate the logs on a daily basis.Archived files can be named with the date format.
I do not want to touch the local logs in /var/log/messges & other local files . Also I want to stop the remote logs coming into local machine log files.
The xen server logs are
/var/log/VM.start
/var/log/Xensource.log
/var/log/messages
/var/log/Audit.log
/var/log/SMlog
vmware logs are
/var/log/hostd.log
/var/log/auth.log
/var/log/vmkwarning.log
/var/log/shell.log
/var/log/vmksummary.log
/var/log/vmkernel.log
/vmfs/volumes/datastore/virtual machine/vwmare.log
Please help!!
Below is the current configuration
# rsyslog v5 configuration file
# For more information see /usr/share/doc/rsyslog-*/rsyslog_conf.html
# If you experience problems, see
http://www.rsyslog.com/doc/troubleshoot.html
#### MODULES ####
$ModLoad imuxsock # provides support for local system logging (e.g. via logger command)
$ModLoad imklog # provides kernel logging support (previously done by rklogd)
#$ModLoad immark # provides --MARK-- message capability
# Provides UDP syslog reception
$ModLoad imudp
$UDPServerRun 514
# Provides TCP syslog reception
$ModLoad imtcp
$InputTCPServerRun 514
#### GLOBAL DIRECTIVES ####
# Use default timestamp format
$ActionFileDefaultTemplate RSYSLOG_TraditionalFileFormat
# File syncing capability is disabled by default. This feature is usually not required,
# not useful and an extreme performance hit
#$ActionFileEnableSync on
# Include all config files in /etc/rsyslog.d/
$IncludeConfig /etc/rsyslog.d/*.conf
#### RULES ####
# Log all kernel messages to the console.
# Logging much else clutters up the screen.
#kern.* /dev/console
# Log anything (except mail) of level info or higher.
# Don't log private authentication messages!
*.info;mail.none;authpriv.none;cron.none /var/log/messages
# The authpriv file has restricted access.
authpriv.* /var/log/secure
# Log all the mail messages in one place.
mail.* -/var/log/maillog
# Log cron stuff
cron.* /var/log/cron
# Everybody gets emergency messages
*.emerg *
# Save news errors of level crit and higher in a special file.
uucp,news.crit /var/log/spooler
# Save boot messages also to boot.log
local7.* /var/log/boot.log
# do this in FRONT of the local/regular rules
$template PerHostLog,"/var/log/%HOSTNAME%.log"
if $fromhost-ip startswith '198.19.99.' then -?PerHostLog
& ~
# local/regular rules, like
*.* /var/log/messages
# ### begin forwarding rule ###
# The statement between the begin ... end define a SINGLE forwarding
# rule. They belong together, do NOT split them. If you create multiple
# forwarding rules, duplicate the whole block!
# Remote Logging (we use TCP for reliable delivery)
#
# An on-disk queue is created for this action. If the remote host is
# down, messages are spooled to disk and sent when it is up again.
#$WorkDirectory /var/lib/rsyslog # where to place spool files
#$ActionQueueFileName fwdRule1 # unique name prefix for spool files
#$ActionQueueMaxDiskSpace 1g # 1gb space limit (use as much as possible)
#$ActionQueueSaveOnShutdown on # save messages to disk on shutdown
#$ActionQueueType LinkedList # run asynchronously
#$ActionResumeRetryCount -1 # infinite retries if host is down
# remote host is: name/ip
ort, e.g. 192.168.0.1:514, port optional
#*.* @@remote-host:514
# ### end of the forwarding rule ###
Thank you
Scripts for rsyslog.conf to receive remote syslogs from esxi & xen host
