Use this documentation with care! It describes
the heavily outdated version 5, which was actively
developed around 2010 and is considered dead by the
rsyslog team for many years now.
This documentation reflects the latest update of the
previously existing (now removed) v5-stable branch.
It describes the 5.10.2 version, which was never
released. As such, it contains some content that
does not apply to any released version.
To obtain the doc that properly matches your installed
v5 version, obtain the doc set from your distro. Each
version of rsyslog contained the version that exactly
matches it.
As general advise, it is strongly suggested to
upgrade to the current version supported by the rsyslog
project. The current version can always be found on
the right-hand side info box on the
rsyslog web site.
Note that there is no rsyslog community support available
for this heavily outdated version. If you need to stick
with it, please ask your distribution for support.
Module Name: omrelp
Author:Rainer Gerhards <rgerhards@adiscon.com>
Description:
This module supports sending syslog messages over the reliable RELP protocol. For RELP’s advantages over plain tcp syslog, please see the documentation for imrelp (the server counterpart).
Setup
Please note the librelp is required for imrelp (it provides the core relp protocol implementation).
Configuration Directives:
This module uses old-style action configuration to keep consistent with the forwarding rule. So far, no additional configuration directives can be specified. To send a message via RELP, use
*.* :omrelp:<server>:<port>;<template>
just as you use
*.* @@<server>:<port>;<template>
to forward a message via plain tcp syslog.
Caveats/Known Bugs:
See imrelp, which documents them.
Sample:
The following sample sends all messages to the central server “centralserv” at port 2514 (note that that server must run imrelp on port 2514). Rsyslog’s high-precision timestamp format is used, thus the special “RSYSLOG_ForwardFormat” (case sensitive!) template is used.
$ModLoad omrelp # forward messages to the remote server “myserv” on # port 2514 *.* :omrelp:centralserv:2514;RSYSLOG_ForwardFormat Note: to use IPv6 addresses, encode them in [::1] format.
This documentation is part of the rsyslog project.
Copyright © 2008-2014 by Rainer Gerhards and Adiscon. Released under the GNU GPL version 3 or higher.