Re: syslog lib/module for remote logging

fr Park:

You can try something like this:

require ‘socket’

require ‘win32/eventlog’

include Win32

syslog_dest = 13

syslog_port = 514

syslog_server = ‘192.168.123.122’

s = UDPSocket.new

EventLog.open(‘Application’).tail{ |log|

message = "WinEventLog

#{log.time_generated.asctime}||#{log.event_type}||#{log.source

}||#{log.computer}||#{log.user}||#{log.description}"

s.send("<#{syslog_dest}>#{message}",0,syslog_server,syslog_port)

}

Sweet.
But the udp just reminded that i’m sending security logs that i do _not
want to miss.

Do you know of any syslog-like module that uses tcp? Is this possible
using a drb-like framework?

kind regards -botp

remote syslog works on UDP. If you want to use TCP, you’re not going to
use
syslog. Two options: 1) examine how likely your system is to drop
packets.
UDP usually drops packets in the kernel (either your computers or your
routers) when the network stack is congested or busy- it’s easy to write
a
test program that will make it happen, but quite rare in many local
networks. (Over the Internet, forget it.) 2) Use a reliable
message-queueing
system of some kind.

But the udp just reminded that i’m sending security logs that i do
_not want to miss.

Do you know of any syslog-like module that uses tcp? Is this possible
using a drb-like framework?

On unix side there are tcp base syslog implementations (see syslog-ng).
Don’t know if it is possible to use them on MS systems.

Cheers,

Steph.