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vininx |
Posted: Mon Nov 21, 2011 8:32 am Post subject: Subscribing to syslog in Distributed systems |
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Acolyte
Joined: 13 Oct 2009 Posts: 69
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Hi,
Is there a way to publish/subscribe to the syslog written by websphere message broker in Linux OS. I know that broker publishes the information about runtime processes, will it be possible to publish the syslogs as well.
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mqjeff |
Posted: Mon Nov 21, 2011 8:47 am Post subject: |
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Joined: 25 Jun 2008 Posts: 17447
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Define "publish".
You can certainly pipe syslog output to any program you want. |
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vininx |
Posted: Mon Nov 21, 2011 9:12 am Post subject: |
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Acolyte
Joined: 13 Oct 2009 Posts: 69
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Publishing in the sense that, whether there is any standard topic strings that broker publishes when it writes to the syslog so that we could be able to subscribe to that symbols.
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You can certainly pipe syslog output to any program you want. |
Please advise on this |
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smdavies99 |
Posted: Mon Nov 21, 2011 9:18 am Post subject: |
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Joined: 10 Feb 2003 Posts: 6076 Location: Somewhere over the Rainbow this side of Never-never land.
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Lookup the Unix or Linux 'man' pages for syslog & syslog.conf _________________ WMQ User since 1999
MQSI/WBI/WMB/'Thingy' User since 2002
Linux user since 1995
Every time you reinvent the wheel the more square it gets (anon). If in doubt think and investigate before you ask silly questions. |
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Vitor |
Posted: Mon Nov 21, 2011 9:30 am Post subject: |
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Joined: 11 Nov 2005 Posts: 26093 Location: Texas, USA
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vininx wrote: |
Publishing in the sense that, whether there is any standard topic strings that broker publishes when it writes to the syslog so that we could be able to subscribe to that symbols. |
AFAIK broker doesn't write internal errors to anything other than syslog for the good & sufficient reason that, in a problem situation, the local disk is the one thing the broker can rely on. Imagine a WMBv7 broker trying to publish an error indicating that it's queue manager was unresponsive.....!
But as my most worthy associates have said, syslog can be piped into anything, including a small app that publishes the relevent parts. If your site has WMB-aware monitoring tools these may be able to do this for you, as such tools read the syslog.
But then if you've got such tools, why would you be trying to publish the errors? _________________ Honesty is the best policy.
Insanity is the best defence. |
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lancelotlinc |
Posted: Mon Nov 21, 2011 10:32 am Post subject: |
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Joined: 22 Mar 2010 Posts: 4941 Location: Bloomington, IL USA
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mqjeff |
Posted: Mon Nov 21, 2011 12:00 pm Post subject: |
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lancelotlinc wrote: |
Tivoli Omegamon XE for Distributed Systems is a great product for this. |
And there are a number of non-IBM products in this same space that do good things, as well.
So the real question to be thinking about is "Do I really want to try and re-invent this particular wheel?".
The answer is "NO". |
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lancelotlinc |
Posted: Mon Nov 21, 2011 12:15 pm Post subject: |
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I actually wrote part of BMC Patrol. It can be used also for this purpose. I believe Omegamon is further developed and more refined, since (IMHO) BMC has not kept the pace with the Patrol product as compared to how far the Tivoli product has come. _________________ http://leanpub.com/IIB_Tips_and_Tricks
Save $20: Coupon Code: MQSERIES_READER |
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