Ansible Role: rsyslog

An Ansible Role that installs rsyslog.

Requirements

None

Role Variables

Available variables are listed below, along with default values (see defaults/main.yml):

rsyslog_server_udp: false
rsyslog_server_tcp: true
rsyslog_server_udp_port: 1514
rsyslog_server_tcp_port: 1514
rsyslog_server_folder: /var/syslog

The ports are set to 1514 due to a bug in Ubuntu 12.04 that prevents it from binding to a priviledged port.

Dependencies

None

Example Playbook

---
- hosts: all
  sudo: true
  roles:
    - syslog

License

MIT / BSD

Author Information

This role was created in 2014 by Jrgns, maintainer of EagerELK.