Puppet Class: librenms::syslog

Defined in:
modules/librenms/manifests/syslog.pp

Overview

SPDX-License-Identifier: Apache-2.0

Class: librenms::syslog

Sets up a separate rsyslog instance that receives messages in syslog (UDP 514) and forwards them to librenms' syslog script.

Using a separate instance seems more complicated at first but provides certain important benefits:

  • The separate instance runs as the librenms user and hence is able to read the configuration file without giving access to the whole syslog group

  • There's no mixing of system syslog with the remote syslog and no messy filtering to avoid logging the local system's logs to LibreNMS

  • The received loglines are only stored in LibreNMS and are not forwarded to

the rest of the syslog config (local log files, remote syslog servers etc.)

Parameters

None.



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# File 'modules/librenms/manifests/syslog.pp', line 19

class librenms::syslog {
    file { '/etc/librenms-rsyslog.conf':
        ensure  => present,
        owner   => 'root',
        group   => 'root',
        mode    => '0444',
        source  => 'puppet:///modules/librenms/rsyslog.conf',
        require => [
            File['/usr/local/sbin/librenms-syslog'],
            User['librenms'],
        ],
    }

    systemd::service { 'librenms-syslog':
        ensure    => present,
        content   => systemd_template('librenms-syslog'),
        subscribe => File['/etc/librenms-rsyslog.conf'],
    }

    profile::auto_restarts::service { 'librenms-syslog': }
}