[Linux-HA] Heartbeat Logging

[Andrew Beekhof]

On 1/19/07, Andrew Beekhof <beekhof at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 1/18/07, Florent Bouron <florent.bouron at sytec.co.nz> wrote:
> > Hi Andrew,
> >
> > Yep, I've read it and I've tried to apply want I understood from it.
> > I actually understood that :
> >         - nothing need to be defined in ha.cf except "use_logd on". Is
> > "debug 0" still required ?
>
> i think thats the default so, no.
>
> >         - /etc/logd.cf receives the log configuration
>
> if you mean s/receives/contains/ then yes
>
> > and should not include any logfacility directive to disable syslog.
>
> where did you find that?
>
> >         - However, the ha_logd.cf example indicates that the default
> > facility is local7
> > Here are my conf files : it looks like even with nothing, messages are
> > to be sent to syslog ???
>
> i just poked around in the code and it does seem that there is no way
> to not log to syslog.
>
> sigh.
>
> i'll see what i can do...

ok, see the following two commits:
  http://hg.beekhof.net/lha/crm-dev/rev/1b4161dc0042
  http://hg.beekhof.net/lha/crm-dev/rev/effbf74e7cad

they will allow you to set "log_facility none" in ha.cf or logd.cf and
achieve the behavior you're after.

>
> >
> > ----------------------------
> > ha.cf :
> > use_logd on
> > debug 0
> > keepalive 1 # 1 second
> > deadtime 10
> > initdead 80
> > mcast eth1 224.0.0.18 694 1 0
> > node BBBB AAAA
> > crm yes
> > auto_failback yes
> > coredumps true
> > compression    bz2
> >
> > ----------------------------
> > logd.cf :
> > debugfile /var/log/heartbeat/ha-debug
> > logfile   /var/log/heartbeat/ha-log
> >
> > Any comments appreciated.
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Florent
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: linux-ha-bounces at lists.linux-ha.org
> > [mailto:linux-ha-bounces at lists.linux-ha.org] On Behalf Of Andrew Beekhof
> > Sent: Monday, 15 January 2007 8:34 a.m.
> > To: General Linux-HA mailing list
> > Subject: Re: [Linux-HA] Heartbeat Logging
> >
> > On 1/14/07, Andrew Beekhof <beekhof at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > 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.
> >
> > have you read the following page?  it might help a little.
> >    http://linux-ha.org/ha.cf#use_logd
> >
> > > > 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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