Thanks for great advice. The puppet clients are logging to the master, but I agree that it would be better for them to log to syslog. I've got an rsyslog master up and running, which all my linux servers log to, so I'll make use of that to extract the puppet related messages.
- Kenneth On Tue, Oct 12, 2010 at 3:07 PM, Bruce Richardson <itsbr...@workshy.org>wrote: > On Tue, Oct 12, 2010 at 02:27:51PM +0200, Kenneth Holter wrote: > > Hi. > > > > > > The puppetmaster is set up to log to syslog, which is working fine. The > > downside is that most of the log entries created by the puppetmaster does > > not indicate which puppet client that message if from. So basically I > have > > lots and lots of syslog entries created by the puppetmaster, but no way > of > > telling which client it references. > > Just to be clear, you are having your puppet clients tell the > puppestmaster what they are doing and then the master is logging that? > > > > > Is there any way to have the puppet master prefix each syslog message > with > > the name of the client the log message is for? > > I think it is better to have puppet clients logging to local syslog. > You can always configure your syslog daemon to replicate this to another > host (rsyslog or syslog-ng will both do this for you quite easily) or > have logwatch track it. The benefits of this are a) log redundancy, > b) you get to see what the client is doing even when the puppetmaster is > down (or not visible to the client) and c) less load on the puppetmaster > (logging can become a significant extra load if you have a large > network). > > -- > Bruce > > Explota!: miles de lemmings no pueden estar equivocados. > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) > > iEYEARECAAYFAky0XYYACgkQtkVqYTMBSwFu3QCdGuZauN7HtTk5dfVo8bYN3NeN > 5aUAn2ww1FAr4+WIokQhDwcCAhzbyHUT > =3vTw > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Puppet Users" group. To post to this group, send email to puppet-us...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to puppet-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/puppet-users?hl=en.
