rsyslog output module for RabbitMQ

This module sends syslog messages into RabbitMQ server.

Only v6 configuration syntax is supported.

omrabbitmq is tested only with 6.6.0 version of rsyslog.

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Patch

To use this module you need to patch original source files.

1. Download and extract rsyslog sources (rsyslog-6.6.0.tar.gz)

2. Copy directory omrabbitmq from github into rsyslog-6.6.0/plugins directory

3. Patch configure.ac file:

    cd /path/to/rsyslog-6.6.0
    patch < /path/to/configure.ac.patch
   

4. Recreate autotools related files:

    autoreconf
   

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Compile

To successfully compile omrabbitmq module you need rabbitmq-c library.

./configure --enable-omrabbitmq ...

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RPM

You can use modified v6-stable.spec file with conditional directives to create rsyslog RPMs.

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Configure

omrabbitmq output module supports only v6 configuration syntax.

Parameters:

• host=<hostname> – server
• virtual_host=<virtual_host> – virtual message broker
• user=<user> – user name
• password=<password> – password
• exchange=<name> – exchange name
• routing_key=<name> – name of routing key

Example:

    $ModLoad omrabbitmq

    *.*    action(type="omrabbitmq" 
             host="localhost"
             virtual_host="/"
             user="guest"
             password="guest"
             exchange="syslog"
             routing_key="syslog.all"
             template="RSYSLOG_ForwardFormat"
             queue.type="linkedlist"
             queue.timeoutenqueue="0"
             queue.filename="rabbitmq"
             queue.highwatermark="500000"
             queue.lowwatermark="400000"
             queue.discardmark="5000000"
             queue.timeoutenqueue="0"
             queue.maxdiskspace="5g"
             queue.size="2000000"
             queue.saveonshutdown="on"
             action.resumeretrycount="-1")