rsyslog Cookbook

This cookbook sets your rsyslog to forward logs to another rsyslog server that's listening on port 514. This is one of my first recipes so it's a bit rough.

Requirements

Tested on: RHEL 6 / CentOS 6

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packages

rsyslog - Default CentOS 6 logger

Attributes

rsyslog::default

Key	Type	Description	Default
`['rsyslog']['client']['config']`	string	This is where rsyslog.conf is located	`/etc/rsyslog.conf`
`['rsyslog']['client']['service']`	string	rsyslog is the service	`rsyslog`
`['rsyslog']['server']['ipaddress']`	string	This is the IP address for the listening server	`10.13.37.23`
`['rsyslog']['server']['subnet']`	string	Your local subnet	`10.13.37.0/24`
`['rsyslog']['server']['mysqlip']`	string	The IP address of your mysql server	`127.0.0.1`
`['rsyslog']['server']['mysqldb']`	string	The database name of your rsyslog server	`Syslog`
`['rsyslog']['server']['mysqluser']`	string	The username for your mysqluser	`root`
`['rsyslog']['server']['mysqlpass']`	string	The password for the mysqluser	`secret`

Note: I don't know how to use encrytped databags yet so the password is currently plaintext. Keep that in mind

Usage

rsyslog::client

rsyslog::server

Just include rsyslog in your node's run_list:

Contributing

TODO: (optional) If this is a public cookbook, detail the process for contributing. If this is a private cookbook, remove this section.