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author | Rainer Gerhards <rgerhards@adiscon.com> | 2008-01-28 13:27:11 +0000 |
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committer | Rainer Gerhards <rgerhards@adiscon.com> | 2008-01-28 13:27:11 +0000 |
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diff --git a/doc/features.html b/doc/features.html index 87efc2fe..92cfddbb 100644 --- a/doc/features.html +++ b/doc/features.html @@ -16,7 +16,10 @@ is going on, you can also subscribe to the <a href="http://lists.adiscon.net/mai <li>native support for <a href="rsyslog_mysql.html">writing to MySQL databases</a><li> native support for writing to Postgres databases<li>support for (plain) tcp based syslog - much better reliability<li>support for sending and receiving - compressed syslog messages<li>ability to configure backup syslog/database + compressed syslog messages<li>support for on-demand on-disk spooling of + messages that can not be processed fast enough (a great feature for + <a href="rsyslog_high_database_rate.html">writing massive amounts of syslog + messages to a database</a>)<li>ability to configure backup syslog/database servers - if the primary fails, control is switched to a prioritized list of backups<li>support for receiving messages via
reliable <a href="http://www.monitorware.com/Common/en/glossary/rfc3195.php">
RFC 3195</a> delivery<li>ability to generate file names and directories (log targets) dynamically, based on many different properties<li>control of log output format, @@ -32,8 +35,9 @@ is going on, you can also subscribe to the <a href="http://lists.adiscon.net/mai messages<li>control of whether the local hostname or the hostname of the origin of the data is shown as the hostname in the output<li>ability to preserve the original hostname in NAT environments and relay chains - <li>ability to limit the allowed network senders<li>powerful BSD-style
hostname and program name blocks for easy multi-host support<li>
multi-threaded (<a href="http://rgerhards.blogspot.com/2007/08/why-is-rsyslog-multi-threaded-and-is-it.html">is - this important? why?</a>)<li>very
experimental and volatile support for <a href="syslog-protocol.html">syslog-protocol</a>
compliant messages (it is volatile because standardization is currently
underway and this is a proof-of-concept implementation to aid this effort)<li> + <li>ability to limit the allowed network senders<li>powerful BSD-style
hostname and program name blocks for easy multi-host support<li>
massively
multi-threaded with dynamic work thread pools that start up and shut + themselves down on an as-needed basis (great for high log volume on + multicore machines)<li>very
experimental and volatile support for <a href="syslog-protocol.html">syslog-protocol</a>
compliant messages (it is volatile because standardization is currently
underway and this is a proof-of-concept implementation to aid this effort)<li> experimental support for syslog-transport-tls based framing on syslog/tcp connections<li> the sysklogd's klogd functionality is implemented as the <i>imklog</i> input @@ -46,7 +50,8 @@ is going on, you can also subscribe to the <a href="http://lists.adiscon.net/mai directories. Includes are specified in the main configuration file<li> supports multiple actions per selector/filter condition<li> MySQL and Postgres SQL functionality as a dynamically loadable plug-in<li> - modular design for outputs - easily extensible</ul> + modular design for inputs and outputs - easily extensible via custom plugins<li> + an easy-to-write to plugin interface</ul> <p> </p> <h2>Upcoming Features</h2> <p>The list below is something like a repository of ideas we'd like to |