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diff --git a/doc/features.html b/doc/features.html index 13fc34c6..2b3b31d9 100644 --- a/doc/features.html +++ b/doc/features.html @@ -1,5 +1,7 @@ <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"> -<html><head><title>rsyslog features</title></head> +<html><head><title>rsyslog features</title> + +</head> <body> <h1>RSyslog - Features</h1> <p><b>This page lists both current features as well as @@ -23,13 +25,18 @@ to MySQL databases</a></li> <li> native support for writing to Postgres databases</li> <li>direct support for Firebird/Interbase, OpenTDS (MS SQL, Sybase), SQLLite, Ingres, Oracle, and mSQL via libdbi, -a database abstraction layer (almost as good as native)</li><li>native support for <a href="ommail.html">sending mail messages</a> (first seen in 3.17.0)</li> +a database abstraction layer (almost as good as native)</li> +<li>native support for <a href="ommail.html">sending +mail messages</a> (first seen in 3.17.0)</li> <li>support for (plain) tcp based syslog - much better reliability</li> <li>support for sending and receiving compressed syslog messages</li> <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><li>support for selectively <a href="http://wiki.rsyslog.com/index.php/OffPeakHours">processing messages only during specific timeframes</a> and spooling them to disk otherwise</li> +amounts of syslog messages to a database</a>)</li> +<li>support for selectively <a href="http://wiki.rsyslog.com/index.php/OffPeakHours">processing +messages only during specific timeframes</a> and spooling them to +disk otherwise</li> <li>ability to monitor text files and convert their contents into syslog messages (one per line)</li> <li>ability to configure backup syslog/database servers - if @@ -49,8 +56,9 @@ substrings</li> command execution</li> <li>support for running multiple rsyslogd instances on a single machine</li> -<li>support for <a href="rsyslog_stunnel.html"> -ssl-protected syslog</a> (via stunnel)</li> +<li>support for <a href="rsyslog_tls.html">TLS-protected +syslog</a> (both <a href="rsyslog_tls.html">natively</a> +and via <a href="rsyslog_stunnel.html">stunnel</a>)</li> <li>ability to filter on any part of the message, not just facility and severity</li> <li>ability to use regular expressions in filters</li> @@ -70,8 +78,7 @@ high log volume on multicore machines)</li> compliant messages (it is volatile because standardization is currently underway and this is a proof-of-concept implementation to aid this effort)</li> -<li> experimental support for syslog-transport-tls based -framing on syslog/tcp connections</li> +<li> world's first implementation of syslog-transport-tls</li> <li> the sysklogd's klogd functionality is implemented as the <i>imklog</i> input plug-in. So rsyslog is a full replacement for the sysklogd package</li> <li> support for IPv6</li> @@ -90,7 +97,13 @@ via custom plugins</li> <li>support for arbitrary complex boolean, string and arithmetic expressions in message filters</li> </ul> -<p> </p> +<h2>World's first</h2> +Rsyslog has an interesting number of "world's firsts" - things that +were implemented for the first time ever in rsyslog. Some of them are still features not available elsewhere.<br><ul> +<li>world's first implementation of IETF I-D syslog-protocol (February 2006, version 1.12.2 and above)</li><li>world's first implementation of dynamic syslog on-the-wire compression (December 2006, version 1.13.0 and above)</li><li>world's first open-source implementation of a disk-queueing syslogd (January 2008, version 3.11.0 and above)</li> +<li>world's first implementation of IETF I-D +syslog-transport-tls (May 2008, version 3.19.0 and above)</li> +</ul> <h2>Upcoming Features</h2> <p>The list below is something like a repository of ideas we'd like to implement. Features on this list are typically NOT scheduled @@ -101,17 +114,13 @@ typically within reach of implementation. Users are encouraged to submit feature requests there (or via our forums). If we like them but they look quite long-lived (aka "not soon to be implemented"), they will possibly be migrated to this list here and at some time moved back -to the sourceforge tracker.</p> +to the bugzilla tracker.</p> <ul> -<li>implement native email-functionality in selector (probably -best done as a plug-in)</li> <li>port it to more *nix variants (eg AIX and HP UX) - this needs volunteers with access to those machines and knowledge </li> -<li>support for native SSL enryption of plain tcp syslog -sessions. This will most probably happen based on syslog-transport-tls.</li> <li>pcre filtering - maybe (depending on feedback) - simple regex already partly added. So far, this seems sufficient so -that there is no urgent need to do pcre</li> +that there is no urgent need to do pcre. If done, it will be a loadable RainerScript function.</li> <li>support for <a href="http://www.monitorware.com/Common/en/glossary/rfc3195.php">RFC 3195</a> as a sender - this is currently unlikely to happen, because there is no real demand for it. Any work on RFC 3195 has been @@ -124,4 +133,4 @@ future of RFC 3195 in rsyslog</a>.</li> <p>To see when each feature was added, see the <a href="http://www.rsyslog.com/Topic4.phtml">rsyslog change log</a> (online only).</p> -</body></html>
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