[ntp:hackers] [ntpwg] Proposal for multiple log file capability

Brian Utterback brian.utterback at sun.com
Mon Oct 19 15:43:26 UTC 2009


Perhaps you might want to propose what you have in mind. What types of 
events did you have in mind?

Todd Glassey wrote:
> David Mills wrote:
>> Todd,
>>
>> You might get more traction if you include this to hackers at ntp.org.
>>   
> That implies that the list management will allow me to post - they don't 
> allow me to post on QUESTIONS so maybe not.
>> The reference implementation already has multiple log files using the 
>> filegen facility. You probably already know about the peerstats, 
>> loopstats and clockstats files. Now there are the systats file that logs 
>> system statistics of interest to administrators, the protostats file 
>> that logs protocol events of interest to sysadmins and the cryptostats 
>> file that logs events of initerest to security folks. We can add more or 
>> retarget the existing ones. 
> Thanks - I agree with you that the stats files are pretty much the cats 
> meow for creating reliable plotting but I think we need to also put a 
> time-management daemon into the mix (in addition to NTPD) so that the 
> policies can optionally trigger other events like SNMP Traps or RMON 
> events and the like.
>> Personally I find the protostats file the 
>> most useful for everyday watching.
>>   
> The protostats are a good start but as I said - I want to re-target the 
> logging and policy controls.
> 
> Todd
>> Dave
>>
>> Todd Glassey wrote:
>>
>>   
>>> I want to propose that we add a new level of logging to the NTP Suite 
>>> and that allows us to specify different logs for different types of 
>>> events. Today all the events are in one log and that means it has to be 
>>> searched at real time continuously which can be a pain to separate and 
>>> track the different types of alarm events in a time management practice.
>>>
>>> That said we might consider adding the ability to also add multiple 
>>> logging stream capability to this service...
>>>
>>> Just a thought.
>>>
>>> Todd Glassey
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