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

Note that for the sake of clarity this cookbook saves the config file to /etc/remote_syslog2.yml rather than /etc/log_files.yml by default

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 ([email protected])