How to configure the server.xml to send log messages to a Syslog server.


The configuration file is stored in cscs/app/config/server.$CSS_ID.xml.

Syslog sample from server.xml

<!-- syslog sample, available since 2014-04-14, censhare 4.7.26, 4.8.7, 4.9.2 -->
    <!-- handler@formatter defaults to "com.censhare.support.util.logging.SimpleFormatter" -->
    <!-- handler@level defaults to "INFO" -->
    <!-- handler@facility for a list of possible values see https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc3164, default = 1 (user-level messages) -->
    <!--
    <handler
        type="custom"
        level="ALL"
        class="com.censhare.support.util.logging.SyslogHandler"
        hostname="lxsrv.censhare.de"
        facility="1"
        >
      <logger name=""/>
    </handler>
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Configure server.xml

  1. Uncomment the sample lines from  <handler  to  </handler>  .
  2. Set the  hostname  property to your Syslog server.
  3. Restart the censhare Server to activate the changes.

Properties

  • level - log level

  • hostname -  Syslog destination server

Result

Server logs are sent to the Syslog server.