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| author | Rainer Gerhards <rgerhards@adiscon.com> | 2007-10-15 06:59:39 +0000 |
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| committer | Rainer Gerhards <rgerhards@adiscon.com> | 2007-10-15 06:59:39 +0000 |
| commit | 9b386f259e2b0e5389be7851e698908eac45d75e (patch) | |
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upgraded user doc to cover new module action calling convention
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diff --git a/doc/rsyslog_conf.html b/doc/rsyslog_conf.html index ec99a600..06e0efbe 100644 --- a/doc/rsyslog_conf.html +++ b/doc/rsyslog_conf.html @@ -546,9 +546,26 @@ might be too late.</p> <p>Emergency messages often go to all users currently online to notify them that something strange is happening with the system. To specify this wall(1)-feature use an asterisk ("*'').</p> +<h3>Call Plugin</h3> +<p>This is a generic way to call an output plugin. The plugin must support this +functionality. Actual parameters depend on the module, so see the module's doc +on what to supply. The general syntax is as follows:</p> +<p>:modname:params;template</p> +<p>Currently, the ommysql database output module supports this syntax (in +addtion to the ">" syntax it traditionally supported). For ommysql, the module +name is "ommysql" and the params are the traditional ones. The ;template part is +not module specific, it is generic rsyslog functionality available to all +modules.</p> +<p>As an example, the ommysql module may be called as follows:</p> +<p>:ommysql:dbhost,dbname,dbuser,dbpassword;dbtemplate</p> +<p>For details, please see the "Database Table" section of this documentation.</p> +<p>Note: as of this writing, the ":modname:" part is hardcoded into the module. +So the name to use is not necessarily the name the module's plugin file is +called.</p> <h3>Database Table</h3> <p>This allows logging of the message to a database table. Currently, only MySQL -databases are supported. By default, a <a href="http://www.monitorware.com/">MonitorWare</a>-compatible schema is required +databases are supported. However, other database drivers will most probably be +developed as plugins. By default, a <a href="http://www.monitorware.com/">MonitorWare</a>-compatible schema is required for this to work. You can create that schema with the createDB.SQL file that came with the rsyslog package. You can also<br> use any other schema of your liking - you just need to define a proper template |