On Tue, Jul 16, 2013 at 9:06 AM, Erik Steffl <[email protected]> wrote:
> On 07/15/2013 11:52 PM, Rainer Gerhards wrote: > >> On Tue, Jul 16, 2013 at 8:47 AM, Rainer Gerhards >> <[email protected]>**wrote: >> >> >>> >>> yup, but in a different flavor: I think everyone can pretend things if he >>> is able to reconfigure rsyslog. I think the point here is to provide the >>> necessary facility to rightful users. And if e.g. mmjsonparse always >>> parses >>> into the root, you have essentially lost, you can't properly work with >>> subtrees. I remember we discussed adding a capability to write to >>> different >>> subtrees, not sure though if we did implement it. >>> >>> >> I just checked: unfortunately we did not yet do that. >> > > that would solve my problem I think, if the parser would put data into a > user specified subtree instead of root of json. > > We are using the dev version (latest packages from adiscon ubuntu > repository), just about to release it to production (not a huge one, few > servers, maybe a million messages per day). Would definitely at least test > the version with parsing into a subtree. > > curious: why all the discussions only talk about one json tree. Why not > have several named json trees? For the same reason you only have one file system tree: the tree is a hierarchical namespace, so why add another namespace on top of it? > Then whenever referring to json one would specify which tree to use. You do - it's the top level !usr!xxx has all usr variables !msg!xxx has all msg variables !yyy!xxx has all yyy variables see the different trees? > Technically it's no different than having one tree but mentally it might > be easier to manage (and to keep things separated - incoming parsed > message, outgoing message, user specified data etc.) > > again: think filesystem (or dns name or... - it's just the regular method of choice). I'll see if I can quickly add that capability to mmjsonparse. Can you confirm this is the parser you need? Rainer > thanks! > > erik > > ______________________________**_________________ > rsyslog mailing list > http://lists.adiscon.net/**mailman/listinfo/rsyslog<http://lists.adiscon.net/mailman/listinfo/rsyslog> > http://www.rsyslog.com/**professional-services/<http://www.rsyslog.com/professional-services/> > What's up with rsyslog? Follow https://twitter.com/rgerhards > NOTE WELL: This is a PUBLIC mailing list, posts are ARCHIVED by a myriad > of sites beyond our control. PLEASE UNSUBSCRIBE and DO NOT POST if you > DON'T LIKE THAT. > _______________________________________________ rsyslog mailing list http://lists.adiscon.net/mailman/listinfo/rsyslog http://www.rsyslog.com/professional-services/ What's up with rsyslog? Follow https://twitter.com/rgerhards NOTE WELL: This is a PUBLIC mailing list, posts are ARCHIVED by a myriad of sites beyond our control. PLEASE UNSUBSCRIBE and DO NOT POST if you DON'T LIKE THAT.

