Ansible Role: nxlog

Platform

• Windows

How it works

The NXLog Community Edition is one of our open source log management solutions available at no cost. This role add just a configuration for read files log and forward the data to syslog centralized logging. The module win_package (by Chocolatey) manage all aspects of Nxlog (installation, configuration, upgrade, and uninstallation).

Role Main Variables

1. nxlog_omtcp_host (default: localhost): the host of syslog centralized logging.

Role Other Variables

• nxlog_root: "C:\Program Files (x86)\nxlog"
• nxlog_moduledir: "%ROOT%\modules"
• nxlog_cachedir: "%ROOT%\data"
• nxlog_pidfile: "%ROOT%\data\nxlog.pid"
• nxlog_spooldir: "%ROOT%\data"
• nxlog_logfile: "%ROOT%\data\nxlog.log"
• nxlog_omtcp_host: "localhost"
• nxlog_omtcp_port: 514

Dependencies

None.

Example Playbook

- hosts: your-servers
  vars:
    my-tag:
      bpe_nifi_bootstrap:
        file: "C:\\\\Program Files\\\\my-application\\\\logs\\\\my-application.log"
        parameters:
          ReadFromLast: True
          SavePos: True
          Exec: '$nxtags = "my-tag";'

  roles:
    - { role: nxlog, nxlog_omtcp_host: "your-server-logging"}

License

MIT

Author Information

This role was created by Sylvain Beynard.