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Created August 14, 2014 16:08
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A simple command line python syslog client for generating test messages.
#!/usr/bin/env python
import argparse
import logging
import logging.handlers
parser = argparse.ArgumentParser(__file__,
description="A syslog message generator")
parser.add_argument("--address",
"-a",
default="localhost",
help="The syslog message recipient address")
parser.add_argument("--port",
"-p",
type=int,
default=5514,
help="The syslog message recipient port")
parser.add_argument("--level",
"-l",
default="DEBUG",
help="The syslog message log level")
parser.add_argument("--message",
"-m",
required=True,
help="The syslog message")
def string_to_level(log_level):
""" Convert a commandline string to a proper log level
@param string log_level command line log level argument
@return logging.LEVEL the logging.LEVEL object to return
"""
if log_level == "CRITICAL":
return logging.CRITICAL
if log_level == "ERROR":
return logging.ERROR
if log_level == "WARNING":
return logging.WARNING
if log_level == "INFO":
return logging.INFO
if log_level == "DEBUG":
return logging.DEBUG
return logging.NOTSET
if __name__ == "__main__":
args = parser.parse_args()
syslogger = logging.getLogger('SyslogLogger')
syslogger.setLevel(string_to_level(args.level))
handler = logging.handlers.SysLogHandler(address=(args.address, args.port),
facility=19)
syslogger.addHandler(handler)
syslogger.log(args.message)
@nabromov
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nabromov commented Aug 4, 2021

Thanks, I was looking for something quick that I can use to generate messages,; I understand the script is old, but this is what is needed to work with the latest version of the logging module

replace:
syslogger.log(args.message)
with:
syslogger.log(string_to_level(args.level),args.message)

@hamidallaoui
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Thanks Nathan for this great script, I reused after doing some small changes and it is working fine.

The main change I did is using socktype=socket.SOCK_STREAM as argument of logging.handlers.SysLogHandler() function to user TCP instead of UDP.

Thanks again.
Hamid

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