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log the number of distinct hosts communicating with syslog in the past 60 minutes
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syslog-hosts-carbon.sh
#!/bin/sh
# Assumes /var/log/remote/%HOSTNAME/ configuration for central logger
#
# collect data
time=`date +%s`;
distinct=`find /var/log/remote -mmin -60 | cut -d/ -f5| sort -u |wc -l`
# send it!
echo "syslog.distinct_hosts $distinct $time" | nc graphite 2003
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