[Info-vax] OPC Syslog ?

[issinoho]

On Tuesday, 1 June 2021 at 16:48:20 UTC+1, Marc Van Dyck wrote:
> After serious thinking Arne Vajhøj wrote :
> > On 6/1/2021 10:02 AM, Jilly wrote: 
> >> In article <b03245de-7645-4f5c... at googlegroups.com>, 
> >> issinoho <ia... at issinoho.com> wrote: 
> >>> I recently stumbled on this, which is exactly what I'm looking for, but 
> >>> there 
> >>> seems to be nothing else I can find on this. Does this exist? Commercial, 
> >>> Freeware? Download link? 
> >>> 
> >>> https://openvmsworld.blogspot.com/2020/01/openvms-syslog-client-for-installatio 
> >>> n.html 
> >>> 
> >>> Anyone know anything? 
> >> 
> >> https://vmssoftware.com/products/syslogd/ 
> > 
> > I doubt that is the same. 
> > 
> > That blog post says: 
> > 
> > "OPC_SYSLOG is used to read OpenVMS OPCOM messages and to transfer them to a 
> > SYSLOG server" 
> > 
> > which is not the same as a syslogd server. 
> > 
> > Arne
> I have installed the SYSLOGD tool from VSI. I use it to transfer 
> selected audit messages to an alarming tool via the syslog protocol. 
> I think - if I remember well - that this tool can also be configured 
> to transfer OPC messages. I can't check for the moment, but I think 
> that the syslogd config file can contain instruction to transmit 
> messages from selected OPC classes. To be verified, but I'm almost 
> sure. 
> 
> -- 
> Marc Van Dyck

It looks like syslogd can broadcast received syslog messages via OPCOM, which is the opposite of what the originally linked utility (apparently) does.