How to redirect linux-HA logging the way CTS wants it using syslog

• Tell each cluster machine to log to (at least) syslog local7. Change /etc/ha.d/ha.cf on each test machine to say this:

    logfacility local7

  In addition, you can also log to a dedicated local file with the logfile directive if you want to.

• Change /etc/syslog.conf to redirect local7 on each of your cluster machines to redirect to your testmonitor-machine by adding this line somewhere near the top of /etc/syslog.conf

    local7.*                          @testmonitor-machine

• Change syslog on the testmonitor-machine to accept remote logging requests. You do this by making sure it gets invoked with the -r option. On SuSE Linux or United Linux you need to change /etc/rc.config or /etc/sysconfig/syslog to have this line for SYSLOGD_PARAMS:

    SYSLOGD_PARAMS="-r"

  You'll have to restart syslog after putting these parameters into effect.

• Change on the testmonitor-machine to redirect messages from local7 into /var/log/ha-log-local7 by adding this line to /etc/syslog.conf:

    local7.*                      -/var/log/ha-log-local7

  and then restart syslog. On SuSE (and others) run this command:

    /etc/init.d/syslog restart

  Use the corresponding function for your distro.

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