Field Detail

• suffixPattern

  protected String suffixPattern

Constructor Detail

• SyslogAppenderBase

  public SyslogAppenderBase()

Method Detail

• start

  public void start()

• createOutputStream

  public abstract SyslogOutputStream createOutputStream()
                                                 throws UnknownHostException,
                                                        SocketException

  Throws:

  UnknownHostException

  SocketException

• buildLayout

  public abstract Layout<E> buildLayout()

• getSeverityForEvent

  public abstract int getSeverityForEvent(Object eventObject)

• append

  protected void append(E eventObject)

• postProcess

  protected void postProcess(Object event,
                             OutputStream sw)

• facilityStringToint

  public static int facilityStringToint(String facilityStr)

  Returns the integer value corresponding to the named syslog facility.

  Throws:

  IllegalArgumentException - if the facility string is not recognized

• getSyslogHost

  public String getSyslogHost()

  Returns the value of the SyslogHost option.

• setSyslogHost

  public void setSyslogHost(String syslogHost)

  The SyslogHost option is the name of the the syslog host where log output should go. WARNING If the SyslogHost is not set, then this appender will fail.

• getFacility

  public String getFacility()

  Returns the string value of the Facility option. See setFacility(java.lang.String) for the set of allowed values.

• setFacility

  public void setFacility(String facilityStr)

  The Facility option must be set one of the strings KERN, USER, MAIL, DAEMON, AUTH, SYSLOG, LPR, NEWS, UUCP, CRON, AUTHPRIV, FTP, NTP, AUDIT, ALERT, CLOCK, LOCAL0, LOCAL1, LOCAL2, LOCAL3, LOCAL4, LOCAL5, LOCAL6, LOCAL7. Case is not important.

  See SyslogConstants and RFC 3164 for more information about the Facility option.

• getPort

  public int getPort()

  Returns:

• setPort

  public void setPort(int port)

  The port number on the syslog server to connect to. Normally, you would not want to change the default value, that is 514.

• getMaxMessageSize

  public int getMaxMessageSize()

  Returns:

• setMaxMessageSize

  public void setMaxMessageSize(int maxMessageSize)

  Maximum size for the syslog message (in characters); messages longer than this are truncated. The default value is 65400 (which is near the maximum for syslog-over-UDP). Note that the value is characters; the number of bytes may vary if non-ASCII characters are present.

• getLayout

  public Layout<E> getLayout()

• setLayout

  public void setLayout(Layout<E> layout)

• stop

  public void stop()

• getSuffixPattern

  public String getSuffixPattern()

  See {@link #setSuffixPattern(String).

  Returns:

• setSuffixPattern

  public void setSuffixPattern(String suffixPattern)

  The suffixPattern option specifies the format of the non-standardized part of the message sent to the syslog server.

  Parameters:

  suffixPattern -

• getCharset

  public Charset getCharset()

  Returns the Charset used to encode String messages into byte sequences when writing to syslog.

• setCharset

  public void setCharset(Charset charset)

  The Charset to use when encoding messages into byte sequences.

  Parameters:

  charset -