ansible-rsyslog

This role installs and configures rsyslog.

Supported Platforms

RHEL 6
Archlinux
Ubuntu Trusty
Debian Wheezy

It will likely run on other platforms, just drop in vars/ a new file to support your os variant, vars are parsed in the following order/format:

{{ ansible_distribution }}_{{ ansible_distribution_major_version }}.yml
{{ ansible_distribution }}.yml
{{ ansible_os_family }}_{{ ansible_distribution_major_version }}.yml
{{ ansible_os_family }}.yml"

Requirements

None at this time.

Default Role Variables

By default this role will install rsyslog and provide a minimal configuration, however variables can be passed to this role and configuration can be overridden, for additional informations please have a look to defaults/main.yml

rsyslog_default_config: Setup a default basic configuration stanza (default: "True")

Dependencies

None at this time.

Example Playbook

Just install rsyslog with default configuration (it will be placed in /etc/rsyslog.d/)

- hosts: all
  remote_user: root
  sudo: no
  - roles: 
    - {{ role: rsyslog }}

Install rsyslog, without default configuration and setup two different custom stanzas

- hosts: all
  remote_user: root
  sudo: no
  - vars:
    rsyslog_default_config: False
  - role: rsyslog
    items:
      - name: "20-iptables"
        lines: 
          - ':msg, contains, "iptables" /var/log/iptables.log'
          - '& ~'
      - name: "30-dovecot"
        lines: 
          - 'if $programname == 'dovecot' and $syslogseverity <= '6' then ~'
          - '& ~'

License

GPLv2

Author Information

Alessio Cassibba (x-drum) http://blog.zerodev.it.