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https://github.com/juju4/ansible-syslogclient
simple ansible role to setup system to send syslog to remote system
https://github.com/juju4/ansible-syslogclient
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simple ansible role to setup system to send syslog to remote system
- Host: GitHub
- URL: https://github.com/juju4/ansible-syslogclient
- Owner: juju4
- License: bsd-2-clause
- Created: 2016-04-07T01:09:53.000Z (almost 9 years ago)
- Default Branch: main
- Last Pushed: 2024-11-24T19:51:35.000Z (about 2 months ago)
- Last Synced: 2024-11-24T20:24:11.937Z (about 2 months ago)
- Language: Jinja
- Size: 186 KB
- Stars: 0
- Watchers: 3
- Forks: 1
- Open Issues: 0
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Metadata Files:
- Readme: README.md
- License: LICENSE
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# Remote syslog client ansible role
A simple ansible role to setup system to send syslog to remote system
For more advanced usage like TLS, you are encouraged to look other roles like [Debops Rsyslog](https://github.com/debops/ansible-rsyslog)
## Requirements & Dependencies
### Ansible
It was tested on the following versions:
* 1.9
* 2.0
* 2.2
* 2.4
* 2.5
### Operating systems
Tested Ubuntu 14.04, 16.04, 18.04 and centos7
## Example Playbook
Just include this role in your list.
For example
```
- host: all
roles:
- juju4.syslogclient
```
## Variables
```
syslogclient_server: 10.1.1.1
```
## Continuous integration
This role has a travis basic test (for github), more advanced with kitchen and also a Vagrantfile (test/vagrant).
Once you ensured all necessary roles are present, You can test with:
```
$ cd /path/to/roles/juju4.syslogclient
$ kitchen verify
$ kitchen login
```
or
```
$ cd /path/to/roles/juju4.syslogclient/test/vagrant
$ vagrant up
$ vagrant ssh
```
## Troubleshooting & Known issues
* RedHat/RockyLinux 9: `rsyslog internal message (3,-2455): could not transfer the specified internal posix capabilities settings to the kernel, capng_apply=-5`
* https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2216919
* https://github.com/rsyslog/rsyslog/issues/5159
* https://github.com/ansible/awx/issues/13412
* https://bugs.launchpad.net/tripleo/+bug/2003777
* https://www.syslog-ng.com/community/b/blog/posts/working-around-linux-capabilities-problems-for-syslog-ng
## Other references
* https://insights.ubuntu.com/wp-content/uploads/Whitepaper-CentralisedLogging-v11.pdf
## License
BSD 2-clause