Hi Philippe,

On Thu, Jun 14, 2018 at 1:47 PM, Maupertuis Philippe <
[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi,
> We have a load balancer (lvs+Keepalived) which is used to receive logs
 on four real server.

Going to implement the same in next months.

> Now we are requested to add udp logs and I am not sure how to do that.
> If someone could explain me what the  lvs configuration should be for udp
I would be very grateful.
> If there any  way to check if one server is down ?
> Should I just scrap the check altogether ?

Some nice article about UDP syslog balancing can be read here
https://www.electricalchemy.net/latest-technology/silent-failures-in-linux-lvs-with-keepalived-and-ipvsadm/
More deep-dive information about UDP balancing via keepalived can be read
here
http://www.austintek.com/LVS/LVS-HOWTO/HOWTO/LVS-HOWTO.UDP.html

> From a Rsyslog point of view is there any change for a message  received
in UDP through a load balancer ?
> Are fromhost  and fromhostip  the value of the real sender ?

Rsyslog server should see the original client IP. Means fromhost and
fromhostip values are not touched and point to real sender as expected.
Would be nice to share your experience on this mailinglist.

-- 
Peter
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