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Hi, from the webinar I understand that Rsyslog is used to transfer logs between hosts. I had few questions regarding data transfer:
- does it uses TCP transport?
- how does it behave on infiniband/Mellanox infrastructure as against traditional ethernet setup?
- how frequently the logs are transferred across? is it configurable?
- we use log4j that archives our app logs into gz files, does gz files work with nagios log server?

Thanks
Bhumit

bmm wrote:does it uses TCP transport?

Yes.

bmm wrote: how does it behave on infiniband/Mellanox infrastructure as against traditional ethernet setup?

This is not something we have documented. I would assume as long as traffic can get from point A to point B, it should be fine.

bmm wrote:how frequently the logs are transferred across? is it configurable?

Generally instantly. How would you like it configured?

bmm wrote:we use log4j that archives our app logs into gz files, does gz files work with nagios log server?

Not out of the box. There's a logstash feature request open that doesn't appear to have happened yet.