=====Overview=====

log.offbyone.lan is the network syslog server in the LAIR.

^  hostname  ^  RAM  ^  disk  ^  swap  ^  OS  ^  Kernel  ^
|  log.offbyone.lan  |  256MB  |  4GB (/)  |  128MB  |  Debian 8.0 "Jessie" (AMD64)  |  3.14-1-amd64  |

log.offbyone.lan created on sokraits on 07/12/2014.

=====News=====
  * 04/11/2014 -- Created log.offbyone.lan to replace the old one (mth)
  * 07/12/2014 -- re-recreated log.offbyone.lan and deployed (mth)

=====TODO====
  * sanitize syslog-ng.conf
  * create new client syslog-ng.conf
  * explore switching over to rsyslog
=====Xen Config=====

====Creation====
log.offbyone.lan created on sokraits on 07/12/2014:

<cli prompt="# ">
sokraits:~# xen-create-image --hostname=log role=udev --mac=00:16:3E:2d:47:76
</cli>

====Configuration====
<code>
######################################################################                    
##
## LAIR Xen VM configuration file
##
##     created by xen-tools 4.4 on Sat Jul 12 11:51:42 2014.
##
######################################################################

######################################################################
##
## PyGRUB
##
bootloader  = '/usr/lib/xen-4.3/bin/pygrub'

######################################################################
##
## CPU(s) + memory size
##
memory      = '256'
vcpus       = '1'

######################################################################
##
## Disk device(s).
##
root        = '/dev/xvda1 ro'
disk        = [ 'file:/xen/images/log.disk,xvda1,w',
                'file:/xen/images/log.swap,xvda2,w' ]

######################################################################
##
## Hostname
##
name        = 'log'

######################################################################
##
## Networking
##
dhcp        = 'dhcp'
vif         = [ 'bridge=xenbr1,mac=00:16:3E:2d:47:76' ]

######################################################################
##
## Behaviour
##
on_poweroff = 'destroy'
on_reboot   = 'restart'
on_crash    = 'restart'
</code>

=====Network Configuration=====

^  Machine  ^  Interface  ^  IP Address  ^  MAC Address  ^  Other Names  ^
|  log.offbyone.lan  |  eth0  |  10.80.2.15  |  00:16:3E:2d:47:76  |  |
=====Packages=====

The following packages have been installed on db:

  lair-std (replaced syslog-ng.conf with custom one for the log server)
  lair-ldap (nslcd pam-ldapd libnss-ldapd)
  lair-nfs
  lair-autofs
  mosh
=====syslog-ng config=====
As log is the log aggregator, it mustn't have the LAIR standard client configuration. Following is its config:
====package_thing.conf====
Identification of the file(s) to edit, along with working configs:

<code>
##
## package_thing.conf - configuration file for package_thing
##

############ GENERAL PARAMETERS #################
Server=blah.offbyone.lan
Hostname=sample

</code>

Be sure to do an entry for each relevant config file. The idea is to allow someone else to replicate the work you've done (that someone could easily be you).

=====important topic=====
Explanation of important topic relevant to the service your machine is providing.

=====Potentially useful URLs=====
  * https://peter.blogs.balabit.com/2010/02/how-to-collect-apache-logs-by-syslog-ng/
  * http://blog.tremily.us/posts/syslog-ng/