We have applications on Solaris 10 servers that generate text logfiles. We need to stream these logfiles in realtime to a central server for monitoring of new events.
Ideally we’d have a NFS-mount, and all our system would write their logs to there, and the monitoring server could just pull them up from there. Unfortunately, for technical and non-technical reasons that’s not an option here.
At the moment, we’re using a backgrounded tail -f to pipe the data over an SSH tunnel.
However, we were looking at whether it’s worth putting together something a bit more robust.
I was thinking of writing a simple Python client/server with Twistedb (or something similar – recommendations?) to stream the log data. Is this something that’s easily achievable? Any existing libraries/tools I could look to for ideas? Any issues I should be aware of?
Also, this is Solaris 10, so I’m not familiar with the state of filesystem monitors. I do know Gamin is available via OpenCSW. however, are there any other choices out there?
Check out Python’s logging module. http://docs.python.org/library/logging.html
It contains the capability to log to files, streams, syslog, networked servers, and more. The cookbook contains examples or logging over the network. http://docs.python.org/howto/logging-cookbook.html#logging-cookbook
The module is fairly easy to extend also.