[112547] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: SNMP and syslog forwarders
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Christian Koch)
Wed Mar 4 18:33:38 2009
In-Reply-To: <49AE4F25.3010007@spacething.org>
Date: Wed, 4 Mar 2009 15:33:25 -0800
From: Christian Koch <christian@broknrobot.com>
To: Sam Stickland <sam_mailinglists@spacething.org>
Cc: NANOG list <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces@nanog.org
you can easily configure syslog-ng for forwarding/relaying syslog msgs
to another box
On Wed, Mar 4, 2009 at 1:51 AM, Sam Stickland
<sam_mailinglists@spacething.org> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> It's looking like running all of our traps and syslog through a couple of
> relay devices (and then onwards to the various NMS's) would be quite a wi=
n
> for us.
>
> These relay devices just need to be "dumb" forwarders (we don't require a=
ny
> filtering or storing, just reflection), but we need an HA pair (across tw=
o
> sites) without creating duplicates.
>
> I have the coding skills to make this myself, but as coding skills come a=
nd
> go in our network team, we are looking for a commerical product so it wil=
l
> continnue to work after I get: =A0hit by a bus / amnesia / visions of
> grandeur.
>
> Any recommendations / experience? This needs to scale to ~1,500 devices.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Sam
>
>
