RSYSLOG

Installs and configure RSYSLOG.

Config

• node['chef-rsyslog']['configure']: Arguments given to configure command before compile
• node['chef-rsyslog']['files']: Files you want to watch

• node['chef-rsyslog']['modules']: Built-in modules: datadog

• node['chef-rsyslog']['dir_create_mode']: doc

• node['chef-rsyslog']['file_create_mode']: doc

• node['chef-rsyslog']['file_group']: doc

• node['chef-rsyslog']['file_owner']: doc

• node['chef-rsyslog']['polling_interval']: Time in second to execute the polling on file

• node['chef-rsyslog']['priv_drop_to_group']: doc

• node['chef-rsyslog']['priv_drop_to_user']: doc

• node['chef-rsyslog']['umask']: doc

• node['chef-rsyslog']['source']['checksum']: Checksum of the downloaded tarball

• node['chef-rsyslog']['source']['extension']: The extension of the downloaded tarball

• node['chef-rsyslog']['source']['uri']: The URI, with no file name of the downloaded tarball

• node['chef-rsyslog']['source']['version']: The version number of the downloaded tarball

• node['chef-rsyslog']['source']['folder_name']: The folder name of the downloaded tarball

• node['chef-rsyslog']['source']['file_name']: The file name of the downloaded tarball

• node['chef-rsyslog']['source']['file_path']: The file path where tarball will be saved

• node['chef-rsyslog']['source']['folder_path']: The folder path where tarball will be extracted

• node['chef-rsyslog']['source']['url']: The URL for download of the tarball

• node['chef-rsyslog']['libfastjson']['source']['checksum']: Checksum of the downloaded tarball

• node['chef-rsyslog']['libfastjson']['source']['extension']: The extension of the downloaded tarball

• node['chef-rsyslog']['libfastjson']['source']['uri']: The URI, with no file name of the downloaded tarball

• node['chef-rsyslog']['libfastjson']['source']['version']: The version number of the downloaded tarball

• node['chef-rsyslog']['libfastjson']['source']['folder_name']: The folder name of the downloaded tarball

• node['chef-rsyslog']['libfastjson']['source']['file_name']: The file name of the downloaded tarball

• node['chef-rsyslog']['libfastjson']['source']['file_path']: The file path where tarball will be saved

• node['chef-rsyslog']['libfastjson']['source']['folder_path']: The folder path where tarball will be extracted

• node['chef-rsyslog']['libfastjson']['source']['url']: The URL for download of the tarball

• node['chef-rsyslog']['source']['dependencies']: Libs needed to precompile and configurates the RSYSLOG

Usage

Berkshelf

source 'https://supermarket.chef.io'

cookbook 'chef-rsyslog'

Node

The following nodes is an example of the minimal needed to run correctly this cookbook:

{
  "run_list": [
    "recipe[chef-rsyslog]"
  ]
}

Files

By default, the path of the files will be used as Tag on imfile replacing / by _.

"chef-rsyslog": {
  "files": [
    "/var/log/nginx/access.log",
  }
}

The path /var/log/nginx/access.log wil be a Tag like _var_log_nginx_access.log.
If you want a custom tag, just pass the name separated by a space after the file name.

"chef-rsyslog": {
  "files": [
    "/var/log/nginx/access.log nginx_access",
  }
}

Now Tag will be nginx_access.

Modules

Modules are configurations pre written for you, just pass your credentials.

Datadog

Just add the the Datadog API Key and it will work out of box:

"modules": {
  "datadog": {
    "api_key": "my_api_key"
  }
}