Syslog disable localhost

nedo · Cacti User Joined: 16 Nov 2006 Posts: 60

ok people i have cacti syslog running and couple of more devices routers but i have my local host also displaying syslog meassges which is floding my messages.

i need to take this out casing an overflow

How do i do this

hint

cigamit · Posted: Thu Feb 01, 2007 9:18 pm Post subject:

The latest haloe / syslog plugin has a "Removal Rules" which can be used to delete unwanted messages, even all messages from a specific host.

Other than that, you would have to tell us what syslog agent you are using, show us your configs. And then we would point you to the relevant Google links that you could have already found.

nedo · Cacti User Joined: 16 Nov 2006 Posts: 60

"The latest haloe / syslog plugin has a "Removal Rules" which can be used to delete unwanted messages, even all messages from a specific host.
"

i have the latest haloe /syslog plugin with alerts and removal rules but i want to stop my localhost on which cacti is running to send logs to syslog i want to completley rmove it from syslog cause its filling up quickly and i think its slowing down my processor

is it possible to take out from the config file or even go into mylocalhost and disable snmp so it doesnt send me 1000 meassages everyday ..
i am not good with linux wouldnt know where to disable it ??

help would be good..

thanks

gandalf · Posted: Sun Feb 04, 2007 5:58 am Post subject:

Movde to "Plugin - General".
Reinhard

sebbs · Posted: Tue Feb 06, 2007 1:13 pm Post subject: hostname removal

Wouldnt adding a removal rule with your hostname in it, take care of that?

cigamit · Posted: Fri Feb 16, 2007 7:09 pm Post subject: Re: hostname removal

Ahuber · Joined: 16 Nov 2006 Posts: 44 Location: BC, kootenays

I use the removal tool, it works great for that.
I create a rule, then delete the rule, that way I can still store the syslogs in case I have a problem with the CactiEZ server. One thing though, you might think, how the h*ll am I to find an error, when there's 5000 syslogs, that's what the search function above is for.
Though I wouldn't consider it a much needed thing, if I was really fussy (which I am, but not for this topic) It may be good to be able to tell nagios, Cacti, and all the other software one may have, to only send out critical, or emergency messages. That's just something I think a few others may want. As far as I am concerned, and seems like many others, the removal function is good enough. I doubt the syslogging is causing any significant, or even minor, performance issues for your server. cigamit, or anyone else to clarify?