Windows Syslog BOSH Release

• Slack: #syslog on https://slack.cloudfoundry.org
• Tracker: CF Platform Logging Improvements
• CI: Syslog CI
• Syslog Release for Linux: Release

This is a BOSH release for forwarding logs from BOSH jobs on Windows VMs. It forwards logs in c:/var/vcap/sys/log/ (and any subdirectories, recursively) to a configured syslog server.

Evaluation

If you wish to interact with this release to evaluate its behavior, here are some tips. We're assuming some familiarity with BOSH, but not necessarily with Windows.

There is a useful manifest at tests/manifests/tcp.yml. To use it, you will need to provide a deployment name, like so: bosh deploy -d windows-syslog -v deployment=windows-syslog tests/manifests/tcp.yml.

To ssh on to a windows VM, you will need the windows utility release. Our test manifest includes it. You can then use bosh -d windows-syslog ssh --opts=-T forwarder "echo example command" to run a single command non interactively on the forwarder job. Interactive SSH works more or less like you'd expect, except that you arrive in cmd.exe.

Our test manifest includes a storer from the linux syslog release, and the windows forwarder job is configured to send logs to it.