Revision History
Tenth Revision January 8, 2010
Documented the type parameter of filters and rewrite rules, several updates to the Windows agent documentation, and other minor corrections.
Ninth Revision November 6, 2009
Corrected the minimal requirements of the System i agent, as well as the XML configuration of the Windows agent.
Eighth Revision October 30, 2009
Several minor clarifications and typo corrections.
Seventh Revision August 19, 2009
Updated to syslog-ng Agent for Windows version 3.0.4, including the description of the new XML-based configuration file of the agent. Notes on escaping special characters in pattern database rule pattern were also added to Section 8.6.2.3, “Creating pattern databases”. The log_disk_fifo_size() parameter was removed from the list of global syslog-ng options, because it must be set separately for every destination.
Sixth Revision July 31, 2009
Updated to syslog-ng Open Source Edition version 3.0.3, and documented the pattern database (db_parser()) feature: see Section 2.12, “Classifying log messages”, Section 3.9, “Classifying messages”, and Section 8.6.2, “Pattern databases” for details. Also many smaller corrections and clarifications.
Fifth Revision February 6, 2009
Updated to syslog-ng Premium Edition version 3.0.2
Fourth Revision December 12, 2008
Several typo corrections, clarifications, and other cleanups.
Third Revision October 31, 2008
Updated Chapter 5, Collecting logs from Windows hosts to cover version 3.0.3 of the syslog-ng Agent for Windows application.
Second Revision October 8, 2008
Added documentation on installing syslog-ng from .run binaries, and various updates and corrections.
First Revision October 2, 2008
Initial release for review