F21 Self Contained Change: Remote Journal Logging

[Bill Nottingham]

Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek (zbyszek at in.waw.pl) said: 
> On Mon, Apr 14, 2014 at 04:20:16PM -0400, Bill Nottingham wrote:
> > Jaroslav Reznik (jreznik at redhat.com) said: 
> > > = Proposed Self Contained Change: Remote Journal Logging = 
> > > https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/Remote_Journal_Logging
> > > 
> > > Change owner(s): Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek <zbyszek at in.waw.pl>
> > > 
> > > Systemd journal can be configured to forward events to a remote server. 
> > > Entries are forwarded including full metadata, and are stored in normal 
> > > journal files, identically to locally generated logs. 
> > 
> > What's the future of gatewayd if this becomes more widely used?
>
> gatewayd works in pull mode. Here I'm proposing a push model, where the
> "client" (i.e. machine generating the logs) pushes logs to the server
> at the time of its own chosing. gatewayd is probably better for some use
> cases, this for others.

I understand the pull vs push distinction ... I'm just not clear why pull
would ever be a model you'd want to use. (vs something like a local cockpit
agent.)

Bill