GSoC 2019: Debun tool
General Info
- Name: Mehul Prajapati
- Github: mehul-m-prajapati
- Email: mehul.encs@gmail.com
- Organization: syslog-ng
- Mentor: Kókai Péter
- Draft Proposal: Improve-Debun-tool-collected-information
Project overview
Syslog-ng is a highly scalable logging application, which is used collect logs fromvarious sources (such as applications, files) on a centralized log server and allows to process them with parsers, filters, and specialized modules before saving/sending them. The syslog-ng-debun tool is distributed with the syslog-ng OSE application.
Project Abstract
The syslog-ng-debun tool collects and saves information about your syslog-ng OSE installation, making troubleshooting easier, especially if anyone is concerned about syslog-ng OSE related issues. The goal of this project is to improve the current debun tool by adding new features and developing tests.
Tasks
| No. | Description | PR |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Save the active config | PR #2752 |
| 2 | find properties files listed in syslog-ng config | PR #2782 |
| 3 | Create a new type for file path into grammar search | PR #2797 |
| 4 | Collect internal logs with possibly higher log level | PR #2840 |
| 5 | syslog-ng-ctl: new command list-files to fetch files from configuration | PR #2797 |
| 6 | Debun: Collect all files in config which have absolute path | WIP |