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Plain TCP Syslog Input Module

Module Name:    imptcp

Available since: 4.7.3+, 5.5.8+?

Author: Rainer Gerhards <rgerhards@adiscon.com>

Description:

Provides the ability to receive syslog messages via plain TCP syslog. This is a specialised input plugin tailored for high performance on Linux. It will probably not run on any other platform. Also, it does no provide TLS services. Encryption can be provided by using stunnel.

This module has no limit on the number of listeners and sessions that can be used.

Multiple receivers may be configured by specifying $InputPTCPServerRun multiple times.

Configuration Directives:

This plugin has config directives similar named as imtcp, but they all have PTCP in their name instead of just TCP. Note that only a subset of the parameters are supported.

Caveats/Known Bugs:

Sample:

This sets up a TCP server on port 514:

[rsyslog.conf overview] [manual index] [rsyslog site]

This documentation is part of the rsyslog project.
Copyright © 2010 by Rainer Gerhards and Adiscon. Released under the GNU GPL version 3 or higher.