Re: [rsyslog] Controlling Hostname

2022-03-23 Thread Chris via rsyslog
Apologies if this is noise to the list, but I thought maybe someone else may find it interesting. Change the hostname of your Amazon Linux instance - Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud | | | | Change the hostname of your Amazon Linux instance - Amazon Elastic Compu... Set the hostname for your A

Re: [rsyslog] Controlling Hostname

2022-03-23 Thread David Lang via rsyslog
managing the hostname in the AWS instance is far better. I don't know the details, but there is some ability to run a config script at startup time, you could have that set the hostname (say something like 'function-count') and get more value from the hostname David Lang __

Re: [rsyslog] Controlling Hostname

2022-03-23 Thread Chris via rsyslog
.com" > Cc: Chris > Subject: [rsyslog] Controlling Hostname > > I have several Linux instances in an Amazon VPC. They send UDP 514 to a > singular free tier ubuntu server running rsyslog.  > It aggregates all incoming messages and sends them over TLS to a primary log > server

Re: [rsyslog] Controlling Hostname

2022-03-23 Thread David Lang via rsyslog
wrote: Date: Wed, 23 Mar 2022 18:08:10 + (UTC) From: Chris via rsyslog To: "rsyslog@lists.adiscon.com" Cc: Chris Subject: [rsyslog] Controlling Hostname I have several Linux instances in an Amazon VPC. They send UDP 514 to a singular free tier ubuntu server running rsyslog.  It

[rsyslog] Controlling Hostname

2022-03-23 Thread Chris via rsyslog
I have several Linux instances in an Amazon VPC. They send UDP 514 to a singular free tier ubuntu server running rsyslog.  It aggregates all incoming messages and sends them over TLS to a primary log server running mysql and Loganalyzer on it.  Amazon makes controlling the hostname necessary beca