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LOGGEN(1)		    The loggen manual page		     LOGGEN(1)

NAME
       loggen - Generate syslog messages at a specified rate

SYNOPSIS
       loggen [options]target [port]

DESCRIPTION
       NOTE: The loggen application is distributed with the syslog-ng system
       logging application, and is usually part of the syslog-ng package. The
       latest version of the syslog-ng application is available at the
       official syslog-ng website[1].

       This manual page is only an abstract; for the complete documentation of
       syslog-ng, see The syslog-ng Administrator Guide[2].

       The loggen application is tool to test and stress-test your syslog
       server and the connection to the server. It can send syslog messages to
       the server at a specified rate, using a number of connection types and
       protocols.

OPTIONS
       --csv or -C
	   Send statistics of the sent messages to stdout as CSV. This can be
	   used for plotting the message rate.

       --dgram or -D
	   Use datagram socket (UDP or unix-dgram) to send the messages to the
	   target.

       --help or -h
	   Display a brief help message.

       --inet or -i
	   Use the TCP (by default) or UDP (when used together with the
	   --dgram option) protocol to send the messages to the target.

       --interval <seconds> or -I <seconds>
	   The number of seconds loggen will run. Default value: 10

       --no-framing or -F
	   Do not use the framing of the IETF-syslog protocol style, even if
	   the syslog-proto option is set.

       --rate <message/second> or -r <message/second>
	   The number of messages generated per second. Default value: 1000

       --read-file or -R
	   Read the messages from a file and send them to the target. See also
	   the --skip-tokens option.

       --size or -s
	   The size of a syslog message in bytes. Default value: 256

       --skip-tokens
	   Skip the specified number of space-separated tokens (words) at the
	   beginning of every line. For example, if the messages in the file
	   look like foo bar message, --skip-tokens 2 skips the foo bar part
	   of the line, and sends only the message part. Works only when used
	   together with the --read-file parameter.

       --stream or -S
	   Use a stream socket (TCP or unix-stream) to send the messages to
	   the target.

       --syslog-proto or -P
	   Use the new IETF-syslog message format as specified in RFC5424. By
	   default, loggen uses the legacy BSD-syslog message format (as
	   described in RFC3164). See also the --no-framing option.

       --unix or -x
	   Use a UNIX domain socket to send the messages to the target.

       --use-ssl or -U
	   Use an SSL-encrypted channel to send the messages to the target.
	   Note that it is not possible to check the certificate of the
	   target, or to perform mutual authentication.

       --verbose or -V
	   Display the actual speed of sending messages in messages/second.

EXAMPLE
       The following command generates 100 messages per second for ten
       minutes, and sends them to port 2010 of the localhost via TCP. Each
       message is 300 bytes long.

	   loggen --size 300 --rate 100 --interval 600 127.0.0.1 2010

       The following command is similar to the one above, but uses the UDP
       protocol.

	   loggen --inet --dgram --size 300 --rate 100 --interval 600 127.0.0.1 2010

SEE ALSO
       syslog-ng.conf(5)

       The syslog-ng Administrator Guide[2]

       If you experience any problems or need help with loggen or syslog-ng,
       visit the syslog-ng mailing list[3]

AUTHOR
       This manual page was written by the BalaBit Documentation Team
       <documentation@balabit.com>.

COPYRIGHT
       Copyright © 2000-2009 BalaBit IT Security Ltd. Published under the
       Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works
       (by-nc-nd) 3.0 license. See http://creativecommons.org/ for details.
       The latest version is always available at
       http://www.balabit.com/support/documentation.

NOTES
	1. official syslog-ng website
	   http://www.balabit.com/network-security/syslog-ng/

	2. The syslog-ng Administrator Guide
	   http://www.balabit.com/support/documentation/

	3. syslog-ng mailing list
	   https://lists.balabit.hu/mailman/listinfo/syslog-ng

syslog-ng			  06/30/2010			     LOGGEN(1)

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