RFC: Establishing logging standards

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Roch roch at on-waves.com
Wed Nov 11 14:10:54 UTC 2009


Hi,

I think it would be nice to have Cisco-like approach with
term mon/term no mon commands in order to enable debug on one vty.

Regards

Roch.

Holger Freyther wrote:
> On Wednesday 11 November 2009 14:57:25 Harald Welte wrote:
>   
>> On Tue, Nov 10, 2009 at 04:17:05PM +0900, Harald Welte wrote:
>>     
>>>> in one way this is a continuation of the thread but there is no real
>>>> need to quote anything. I went to ulogd and had a look (and copied the
>>>> levels), I looked at what we have and what would be neat and came up
>>>> with a small interface right now[1]...
>>>>         
>>> ok, I will look at it asap.
>>>       
>> I've now looked at it.  I am not sure if we really need our own filter
>> language, whoch would just add a lot of ugly string parsing/handling code
>>  and overall complexity.  I mean, if you want to write that, do it :)  But
>>  I think there are other more important things to take care of...
>>     
>
> I agree. I was thinking about the VTY case and we need to have a way to go 
> from string to code (enabling/configuring the filter) and I didn't want to add a 
> lot of VTY commands. Let me think about something easy here..
>
>
>
>   
>> Another topic is: How do you want to handle the log targets?  I mean,
>>  there's only one logfile or one syslog target, sure.  But what about the
>>  VTY's?  We can have a number of VTY connections, and it may very well make
>>  sense to use one non-debug VTY for issuing commands (without scrolling
>>  debug messages) and a different VTY where you are mainly interested in
>>  seeing [scrolling] debug log.
>>     
>
> My idea was to add a "target" when the telnet connection is opened and remove 
> it when it is closed and by default not output anything.
>
>
>   
>> So every VTY would register its own debug target after the telnet
>>  connection is established?
>>     
>
>
> Yeah.
>
>   
>> Otherwise everything looks fine to me.
>>     
>
>
> I hope to have a first implementation to toy with soon.
>
> regards
> 	holger
>
>   
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