The syslog-ng 3.0 Administrator GuideDocument version: Thirteenth
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The syslog-ng 3.0 Administrator GuideDocument version: Thirteenth
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loggen — Generate syslog messages at a specified rate
loggen [options]target [port]
NOTE: The loggen application is distributed with the syslog-ng system logging application, and is usually part of the syslog-ng package. The latest version of the syslog-ng application is available at the official syslog-ng website: http://www.balabit.com/network-security/syslog-ng/.
This manual page is only an abstract; for the complete documentation of syslog-ng, see The syslog-ng Administrator Guide .
The loggen application is tool to test and stress-test your syslog server and the connection to the server. It can send syslog messages to the server at a specified rate, using a number of connection types and protocols.
Send statistics of the sent messages to stdout as CSV. This can be used for plotting the message rate.
Use datagram socket (UDP or unix-dgram) to send the messages to the target.
Display a brief help message.
Use the TCP (by default) or UDP (when used together with the --dgram option) protocol to send the messages to the target.
The number of seconds loggen will run. Default value: 10
Do not use the framing of the IETF-syslog protocol style, even if the syslog-proto option is set.
The number of messages generated per second. Default value: 1000
The size of a syslog message in bytes. Default value: 256
Use a stream socket (TCP or unix-stream) to send the messages to the target.
Use the new IETF-syslog message format as specified in RFC5424. By default, loggen uses the legacy BSD-syslog message format (as described in RFC3164). See also the --no-framing option.
Use a UNIX domain socket to send the messages to the target.
The following command generates 100 messages per second for ten minutes, and sends them to port 2010 of the localhost via TCP. Each message is 300 bytes long.
loggen --size 300 --rate 100 --interval 600 127.0.0.1 2010The following command is similar to the one above, but uses the UDP protocol.
loggen --inet --dgram --size 300 --rate 100 --interval 600 127.0.0.1 2010The syslog-ng Administrator Guide
If you experience any problems or need help with loggen or syslog-ng, visit the syslog-ng mailing list
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