socklog.zip_Delphi SOCKET_delphi socket_socket delphi_zip

Logger Socket ------------- Version : 1.1 Author : Dirk Claessens <dirkcl@pandora.be> Purpose ------- Many applications somehow maintain log files, especially applications that run continuously for 365 days/year. If you have many of those applications, you will need to inspect many logfiles, all physically located on many systems in the network. Wouldn't it be nice to have =one= central log for all of those applications? Read on, as that's what socklog is intended for. Each application that wishes to use SockLog, simply opens a socket connection to it, and can from then on send it's log messages to SockLog. SockLog will gather this messages into a memory buffer, and periodically dump the buffer into a file for later inspection. In this version, the log files are organised into "hour" files, that is, each log file contains the messages logged in a particular hour of the day. Depending on your needs, you can easily change this to "day" files, or even - if your log throughput is gigantic - in "minute" files. Message Format -------------- To assure proper operation, SockLog expects incoming messages to be prepended with a special message header. ============================================================== **Note that SockLog will reject messages in any other format** ============================================================== Simply do: uses LogCommon; MyLogMessage := LogCommon.FormatLogMessage( 'MY_APP', 'my log test' ); to format a message in the expected format. Even better, do: LogCommon.SendLogMessage( YourSocket, 'MY_APP', 'my log test'); which will take care of the formatting and the sending; Testing ------- A testapp is included ( TestLog.dpr ). Simply fill in the host name where LogSock.exe runs, and do some testing. ( note that you can test this from the same machine, and that you can run TestLog.exe multiple times on one machine ) Viewing the logs ---------------- I have included a simple viewing tool, that you can use to review the log files. You can also search for text. I hope you will find SockLog useful! Regards - Dirk