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authorRainer Gerhards <rgerhards@adiscon.com>2007-10-18 16:17:32 +0000
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Generic Syslog Application Architecture
</pre></font>
<ul>
- <li>A &quot;syslog application&quot; is an application whos purpose is the
+ <li>A &quot;syslog application&quot; is an application whose purpose is the
processing of syslog messages. It may be part of a larger
application with a broader purpose. An example: a database
application might come with its own syslog send subsystem and not
@@ -69,7 +69,7 @@ syslog messages.</li>
itself may have any format and is totally independent from to
format specified in this document. The &quot;Message CoDec&quot; of the
syslog application will bring it into the required format.</li>
- <li>Payload Orginators (&quot;PLOrig&quot;) are the orginal creators of payload.
+ <li>Payload Originators (&quot;PLOrig&quot;) are the original creators of payload.
Typically, these are application programs.</li>
<li>A &quot;Remote PLOrig&quot; is a payload originator residing in a different
application than the syslog application itself. That application
@@ -114,7 +114,7 @@ another syslog application.</li>
<li>A &quot;RelEng Ext&quot; is an extension that processes syslog information
as it enters or exits a RelayEng. An example of such a component
might be a relay cryptographically signing received syslog
-messages. Such a function might be useful to guarantee authenticy
+messages. Such a function might be useful to guarantee authenticity
starting from a given point inside a relay chain.</li>
<li>A &quot;CollectorEng&quot; is a collector engine. At this component, syslog
information leaves the syslog system and is translated into some
@@ -124,7 +124,7 @@ defined to be of native syslog type.</li>
syslog information before it is passed on to the CollectorEng. An
example for this might be the verification of cryptographically
signed syslog message information. Please note that another
-implementation appraoch would be to do the verification outside of
+implementation approach would be to do the verification outside of
the syslog application or in a stage after &quot;CollectorEng&quot;.</li>
<li>A &quot;GWO&quot; is an outbound gateway. An example of this might be the
forwarding of syslog information via SNMP or SMTP. Please note
@@ -132,13 +132,13 @@ that when a GWO directly connects to a GWI on a different syslog
application, no native exchange of syslog information takes place.
Instead, the native protocol of these gateways (e.g. SNMP) is
used. The syslog information is embedded inside that protocol.
-Depending on protocol and gatway implementation, some of the
+Depending on protocol and gateway implementation, some of the
native syslog information might be lost.</li>
<li>A &quot;Store&quot; is any way to persistently store the extracted syslog
information, e.g. to the file system or to a data base.</li>
<li>&quot;Disc&quot; means the discarding of messages. Operators often find it
useful to discard noise messages and so most syslog applications<br>contain a way to do that.</li>
- <li>The ellipsis after &quot;Disc&quot; indicates that there are potentially avariety of different other ways to consume syslog information.</li>
+ <li>The ellipsis after &quot;Disc&quot; indicates that there are potentially a variety of different other ways to consume syslog information.</li>
<li>There may be multiple instances of each of the described
components in a single syslog application.</li>
<li>A syslog application is made up of all or some of the above