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<h1>Oracle Database Output Module</h1>
<p><b>Module Name:&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; omoracle</b></p>
<p><b>Author: </b>Luis Fernando Mu&ntilde;oz Mej&iacute;as &lt;Luis.Fernando.Munoz.Mejias@cern.ch&gt;</p>
<p><b>Available since: </b>: 4.3.0
<p><b>Status: </b>: contributed module, not maitained by rsyslog  core authors
<p><b>Description</b>:</p>
<p>This module provides native support for logging to Oracle databases. It offers
superior performance over the more generic <a href="omlibdbi.html">omlibdbi</a> module.
It also includes a number of enhancements, most importantly prepared statements and
batching, what provides a big performance improvements.
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<p>Note that this module is maintained by its original author. If you need assistance with it,
it is suggested to post questions to the
<a href="http://lists.adiscon.net/mailman/listinfo/rsyslog">rsyslog mailing list</a>.
<p>From the header comments of this module:
<p><pre>

    This is an output module feeding directly to an Oracle
    database. It uses Oracle Call Interface, a propietary module
    provided by Oracle.

    Selector lines to be used are of this form:

    :omoracle:;TemplateName

    The module gets its configuration via rsyslog $... directives,
    namely:

    $OmoracleDBUser: user name to log in on the database.

    $OmoracleDBPassword: password to log in on the database.

    $OmoracleDB: connection string (an Oracle easy connect or a db
    name as specified by tnsnames.ora)

    $OmoracleBatchSize: Number of elements to send to the DB on each
    transaction.

    $OmoracleStatement: Statement to be prepared and executed in
    batches. Please note that Oracle's prepared statements have their
    placeholders as ':identifier', and this module uses the colon to
    guess how many placeholders there will be.

    All these directives are mandatory. The dbstring can be an Oracle
    easystring or a DB name, as present in the tnsnames.ora file.

    The form of the template is just a list of strings you want
    inserted to the DB, for instance:

    $template TestStmt,"%hostname%%msg%"

    Will provide the arguments to a statement like

    $OmoracleStatement \
        insert into foo(hostname,message)values(:host,:message)

    Also note that identifiers to placeholders are arbitrarry. You
    need to define the properties on the template in the correct order
    you want them passed to the statement!
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<p>[<a href="rsyslog_conf.html">rsyslog.conf overview</a>]
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<p><font size="2">This documentation is part of the
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project.<br>
Copyright &copy; 2008, 2009 by <a href="http://www.gerhards.net/rainer">Rainer Gerhards</a> and
<a href="http://www.adiscon.com/">Adiscon</a>.
Released under the GNU GPL version 3 or higher.</font></p>
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