From owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jan 23 19:07:51 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B66E016A468 for ; Wed, 23 Jan 2008 19:07:51 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from howie@thingy.com) Received: from mail.thingy.com (wotsit.thingy.com [212.21.100.67]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 27ECB13C45D for ; Wed, 23 Jan 2008 19:07:50 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from howie@thingy.com) Received: (qmail 89051 invoked by uid 0); 23 Jan 2008 18:41:08 +0000 Received: from unknown (HELO ?192.168.1.56?) (howie@thingy.com@212.21.124.49) by wotsit3.thingy.com with AES256-SHA encrypted SMTP; 23 Jan 2008 18:41:08 +0000 Message-ID: <47978A47.2040402@thingy.com> Date: Wed, 23 Jan 2008 18:41:11 +0000 From: Howard Jones User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.9 (Windows/20071031) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Andreas Klemm References: <20080123171128.GA2398@titan.klemm.apsfilter.org> In-Reply-To: <20080123171128.GA2398@titan.klemm.apsfilter.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Subject: Re: [freebsd-isp] central logfile / real time logging X-BeenThere: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Internet Services Providers List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 23 Jan 2008 19:07:51 -0000 Andreas Klemm wrote: > Hi, > > do you have an idea how to store application generated logfiles > (i.e. apache, ... ) from 1000 Solaris "zones" running on 250 > physical Sun server onto a central FreeBSD logserver ? > Take a look at mod_log_spread? [0] This uses multicast to avoid many tcp connections, and also to allow for resilient logging (multiple receivers). Not certain about the reliability aspect, but the Spread site[1] mentions "a range of reliability, ordering and stability guarantees for messages". I have never used this myself, of course ;-) Howie [0] http://www.backhand.org/mod_log_spread/ [1] http://www.spread.org/index.html