[Linux-HA] Heartbeat Logging

[Andrew Beekhof]

On 1/12/07, Florent Bouron <florent.bouron at sytec.co.nz> wrote:
> Hi there,
>
> I've finalised my heartbeat 2.x setup and I'm really happy with
> everything except the logging.
>
> We basically have got some monitoring hosts that collect every syslog
> events and process them and Heartbeat is generating such a big volume of
> logs that our systems are overloaded and become unstable because of it.
>
> I'm trying to figure out a way of removing the heartbeat logging from
> syslog.

i _highly_ recommend syslog-ng for what its worth

> Correct me if I'm wrong but it seems that heartbeat is using ha_logd and
> responds to the debug 0 directive but also that the other processes
> (tengine, crmd, ...) are still generating their own logs and send them
> directly to syslog.

(baring some bug I'm not aware of...) the crmd, tengine etc all obey
the directives in ha.cf including debug level and where logging should
be sent.

> I'm a bit surprised by this behaviour

not more than i would be

> and I'm sure someone has already
> figured out a way of acheiving what I'm trying to do.
>
> Thanks,
> Florent
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