community.general.syslogger – Log messages in the syslog

Note

This plugin is part of the community.general collection (version 3.8.1).

You might already have this collection installed if you are using the ansible package. It is not included in ansible-core. To check whether it is installed, run ansible-galaxy collection list.

To install it, use: ansible-galaxy collection install community.general.

To use it in a playbook, specify: community.general.syslogger.

Synopsis

  • Uses syslog to add log entries to the host.

Parameters

Parameter Choices/Defaults Comments
facility
string
    Choices:
  • kern
  • user
  • mail
  • daemon ←
  • auth
  • lpr
  • news
  • uucp
  • cron
  • syslog
  • local0
  • local1
  • local2
  • local3
  • local4
  • local5
  • local6
  • local7
Set the log facility.
ident
string
added in 0.2.0 of community.general
Default:
"ansible_syslogger"
Specify the name of application name which is sending the log to syslog.
log_pid
boolean
    Choices:
  • no ←
  • yes
Log the PID in brackets.
msg
string / required
This is the message to place in syslog.
priority
string
    Choices:
  • emerg
  • alert
  • crit
  • err
  • warning
  • notice
  • info ←
  • debug
Set the log priority.

Examples

- name: Simple Usage
  community.general.syslogger:
    msg: "I will end up as daemon.info"

- name: Send a log message with err priority and user facility with log_pid
  community.general.syslogger:
    msg: "Hello from Ansible"
    priority: "err"
    facility: "user"
    log_pid: true

- name: Specify the name of application which is sending log message
  community.general.syslogger:
    ident: "MyApp"
    msg: "I want to believe"
    priority: "alert"

Return Values

Common return values are documented here, the following are the fields unique to this module:

Key Returned Description
facility
string
always
Syslog facility

Sample:
info
ident
string
added in 0.2.0 of community.general
 always
Name of application sending the message to log

Sample:
ansible_syslogger
log_pid
boolean
always
Log PID status

Sample:
True
msg
string
always
Message sent to syslog

Sample:
Hello from Ansible
priority
string
always
Priority level

Sample:
daemon


Authors

  • Tim Rightnour (@garbled1)

© 2012–2018 Michael DeHaan
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Licensed under the GNU General Public License version 3.
https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/collections/community/general/syslogger_module.html