Interesting, it had not occurred to me that a syslog server going down would take down the whole infrastructure. How long was the syslog server down for? rsyslo

Interesting, it had not occurred to me that a syslog server going down would take down the whole infrastructure. How long was the syslog server down for? rsyslog supports reliable forwarding, where it will buffer to memory when the server is down, then to disk when it runs out of configured memory [1]. [1] http://rsyslog.com/doc/rsyslog_reliable_forwarding.html http://rsyslog.com/doc/rsyslog_reliable_forwarding.html