The syslog-ng 3.0 Administrator Guide

The contents of the guide have been updated for syslog-ng 3.0 and syslog-ng Agent for Windows 3.0.1. Since syslog-ng 3.0 contains many new features (see Section 1.4, “What is new in syslog-ng 3.0?” for details), there are several new sections in the following chapters: Chapter 2, The concepts of syslog-ng, Chapter 3, Configuring syslog-ng, and Chapter 8, Reference.

Chapter 8, Reference has become more like a parameter reference, and most of the descriptions and configuration know-how has been moved to Chapter 3, Configuring syslog-ng. However, configuration examples are included in both chapters for convenience.

Earlier versions of this guide contained two chapters called Best practices and examples and Troubleshooting and performance tuning. Most of the material in these chapters have been moved to the relevant parts of Chapter 2, The concepts of syslog-ng and Chapter 3, Configuring syslog-ng. The remaining material is included in Chapter 7, Best practices and examples.

Every driver description in Chapter 8, Reference contains every available parameter for the driver, sections like Common destination driver options have been removed.

The syslog-ng Administrator Guide is now published under the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works (by-nc-nd) 3.0 license, meaning that it can be freely distributed. See Appendix 4, Creative Commons Attribution Non-commercial No Derivatives (by-nc-nd) License for details.