Log format definition?

[Spadajspadaj]

Hi

I'm trying to ingest logs from Bareos to Splunk (the actual destination
is not that important here but it's just to put the question in context).

Is there any summary/specification of what and how Bareos logs? Or do I
have to either do a "try and see" approach or dig through the sources
(just core/src/lib or the whole source)?

I assume that if there are any third-party plugins the authors might
have chosen to log anything in any possible format but I'd like to have
at least the most typical events parsed.


MK

[Spadajspadaj]

OK. Did some digging and it seems that the general logging (apart from
the debug messages which I'm not touching here) is defined in
bareos/core/src/lib/message.cc as

1214 // Generate a Job message
1215 void Jmsg(JobControlRecord* jcr, int type, utime_t mtime, const
char* fmt, ...)

Unfortunately, there are almost 1100 various calls to Jmsg() across the
whole codebase with various different messages - some simple strings,
others - structure-based. And of course most probably, developers of
various plugins can add their own messages. So it's gonna simply be a
trial and error and probably will have to dig through sources on a
per-case need to know basis.

MK