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From: Anshul Gangwar <anshul.gangwar@citrix.com>
To: Alex Huang <Alex.Huang@citrix.com>
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Date: Mon, 11 Mar 2013 10:21:38 +0530
Subject: Re: [DISCUSS] Syslog enhancements
Thread-Topic: [DISCUSS] Syslog enhancements
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Because of the class, from which I am getting alerts is present in=20
com.cloud.alert package.

Thanks,
Anshul
On 08/03/13 18:19, Alex Huang wrote:
> Why not org.apache.cloudstack.alert?  It is an apache project.
>
> --Alex
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Anshul Gangwar
>> Sent: Thursday, March 7, 2013 9:58 PM
>> To: Alex Huang
>> Cc: cloudstack-dev@incubator.apache.org
>> Subject: Re: [DISCUSS] Syslog enhancements
>>
>> Hi Alex,
>>
>> I will change it to package level then i.e. *com.cloud.alert *instead of
>> *com.cloud.alert.AlertManagerImpl*.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Anshul
>> On 08/03/13 06:24, Alex Huang wrote:
>>> Anshul,
>>>
>>> Like the FS.  The only thing I have is it's probably better to have us =
actually
>> change the log category to something like org.apache.cloudstack.alerts. =
 It
>> takes a little code change but would make much more sense that
>> AlertManagerImpl.
>>> --Alex
>>>
>>>> -----Original Message-----
>>>> From: Anshul Gangwar [mailto:anshul.gangwar@citrix.com]
>>>> Sent: Wednesday, March 6, 2013 10:03 PM
>>>> To: cloudstack-dev@incubator.apache.org
>>>> Subject: Re: [DISCUSS] Syslog enhancements
>>>>
>>>> As per discussion I have created the FS for this feature at
>>>>
>> https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/CLOUDSTACK/FS+for+Syslog+
>>>> E
>>>> nhancements.
>>>> This will use the log4j appender to send the syslog messages.
>>>>
>>>> Thanks,
>>>> Anshul
>>>> On 09/01/13 07:22, Hari Kannan wrote:
>>>>> Hi,
>>>>>
>>>>> The core requirements I see are
>>>>>
>>>>> -          Write to local - in syslog format
>>>>>
>>>>> -          Send to remote sylog server
>>>>>
>>>>> -          write the messages with appropriate Log level/priority in =
syslog
>>>> format
>>>>> If log4j appender could do it, we certainly should consider/leverage
>>>>> that -
>>>> I'm not an expert on this, is this something that can be automated
>>>> when we install CloudStack?
>>>>> Hari
>>>>>
>>>>> -----Original Message-----
>>>>> From: David Nalley [mailto:david@gnsa.us]
>>>>> Sent: Tuesday, January 8, 2013 9:17 AM
>>>>> To:cloudstack-dev@incubator.apache.org
>>>>> Subject: Re: [DISCUSS] Syslog enhancements
>>>>>
>>>>> On Tue, Jan 8, 2013 at 12:12 PM, Ram Ganesh<Ram.Ganesh@citrix.com>
>>>> wrote:
>>>>>>> -----Original Message-----
>>>>>>> From: Alex Huang [mailto:Alex.Huang@citrix.com]
>>>>>>> Sent: 08 January 2013 22:10
>>>>>>> To:cloudstack-dev@incubator.apache.org
>>>>>>> Subject: RE: [DISCUSS] Syslog enhancements
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Ram and Hari,
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> I continue to have trouble with this feature.  What I'm used to
>>>>>>> seeing in syslogs are not the things that are being described here.
>>>>>>> They're usually some log level of an application.  If there are
>>>>>>> system events that are not logged to our own logs, why not log
>>>>>>> them to our own logs and use the log4j syslogappender to filter
>>>>>>> them and send them to syslog.  Why write something else?
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Do you have any use cases where system events should not be
>> logged
>>>>>>> into CloudStack's logs?
>>>>>>            I do not think so. I think it is just the legacy code. We
>>>>>> need to ensure that those events also get logged into the log files.
>>>>>> Will take the log4j syslogappender path then
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Thanks,
>>>>>> Ram
>>>>>>
>>>>> So does this obviate the need for the Syslog feature itself? Can we
>>>>> just
>>>> make this a docs bug to document how to configure log4j?
>>>>> --David