Managing Systems and Workgroups: A Guide for HP-UX System Administrators
Configuring a System
Using Distributed Systems Administration Utilities
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syslog Co-existence
The Distributed Systems Administration Utilities configures syslog-ng
to co-exist and work alongside the standard syslogd. syslogd continues
to handle all the local logging for the system. syslog-ng is used when
forwarding messages to a log consolidation system and is used on the log
consolidator to receive and filter messages.
The following diagrams illustrate the relationship between syslogd and
syslog-ng. Figure 1 depicts the configuration on a syslog-ng client
system that is forwarding logs to a remote log consolidation server.
Figure 3-2 syslog-ng Log-Forwarding Configuration
1. The grey area represents standard syslogd operation. Applications
such as Serviceguard’s cmcld daemon call syslog (see syslog (3C)) to
send messages to syslogd. syslog writes messages to the local