Installs and configures remote_syslog2
- Ubuntu (tested using 14.04)
The main configuration of remote_syslog2 is done using a hash which mirrors the structure of the remote_syslog2 config yaml file...
node['remote_syslog2']['config'] = {
files: [],
exclude_files: [],
exclude_patterns: [],
hostname: node['hostname'],
destination: {
host: 'logs.papertrailapp.com',
port: 12345
}
}Since this is rendered directly to YAML, you can theoretically configure any value which is normally configurable. For more information please reference the remote_syslog2 examples
Additional remote_syslog2 command line settings can be specfified in the extra_options attribute
node['remote_syslog2']['extra_options'] = '--facility=local6'For the sake of clarity this cookbook saves the config file to /etc/remote_syslog2.yml rather than the normal /etc/log_files.yml by default
As of version 0.3.0 of this cookbook the binary for remote_syslog2 will include the binary's version number after it - for example "/usr/local/bin/remote_syslog_0.17". This is because remote_syslog2 has no command line flag to find out a binary's version, and this cookbook needs some way of detecting old versions that need to be updated. If you are directly using this binary outside of chef, you will need to make sure you're using the correctly updated binary path.
Include the default recipe in a run list to have remote_syslog2 installed and configured
Installs remote_syslog2
Generates config file for remote_syslog2
Installs remote_syslog2 as an init.d service and starts/enables it
Generally all you have to do to use this cookbook is add the default recipe to your run_list and configure the node['remote_syslog2']['config'] hash.
Author:: Jeff Way (jeff.way@me.com)