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diff --git a/plugins/ommongodb/README b/plugins/ommongodb/README index cea3f3bc..71d56cfa 100644 --- a/plugins/ommongodb/README +++ b/plugins/ommongodb/README @@ -2,6 +2,21 @@ plugin to use MongoDB as backend. tested in ubuntu 10.04 and ubuntu 10.10 +BUILDING THIS PLUGIN +Right now, it seems to be necessary to copy the 10gen c-driver directly under +the ./plugins/ommongodb subdirectory. Then, you need to follow their build +instructions on how to build the mongodb c driver: +http://api.mongodb.org/c/current/building.html + +This is clumpsy, and if someone has ideas on how to improve this situation, +please drop us a line. For obvious reasons, ./configure does not detect +a missing mongodb c driver. + +In order to successfully build ommongodb, you NEED to use the v0.2 version of +the mongo c driver. As it looks, the driver breaks API compatibility and the +curret v0.4 driver seems to have a totally different API (at least this is +what I currently (2012-03-08) see. + configuration: in your /etc/rsyslog.conf, together with other modules: @@ -9,10 +24,10 @@ $ModLoad ommongodb # provides mongodb support then in your /etc/rsyslog.d (check your distribution way to organize the configuration..) you create a file 10-mongodb.conf with the following content: -#the format for the driver is :ommongodb:ip:db:collection;StdMongoDBFmt -#if you want to change what is logged in the db, the template, you must change the source code since the keys are hardcoded -$template StdMongoDBFmt,"%msg%%syslogfacility%%HOSTNAME%%syslogpriority%" -*.* :ommongodb:127.0.0.1,syslog,logs;StdMongoDBFmt +*.* action(type="ommongodb" db="..." collection="...") + +Note: currently templates are not supported. Ommongodb will pick a default +schema and use the message object content for that (templateless). TODO @@ -21,3 +36,5 @@ refactor my code :-) email Victor Pereira <victor.pereira@bigrails.com> twitter twitter.com/vpereira + +part of this doc by Rainer Gerhards <rgerhards@adiscon.com> |