[logback-user] Help with Tomcat -> GUI Viewer logging setup

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Hi Steve,

I guess Joern could answer your question most authoritatively since he 
knows Lilith best.

On 09/07/2010 5:02 PM, Steve Johnson wrote:
> Greetings,
>
> I apologize in advance if my question is obviously documented somewhere
> already. If so, I haven't been able to find those docs and would welcome
> being simply pointed to them.
>
> I'm looking to switch to Logback after years of struggling with log4j
> and chainsaw within a Tomcat environment. I'm hoping to get some advice
> up front to save me frustration in getting to what I want with Logback.
>
> What I'd like to do is have multiple web applications running in a
> single Linux hosted Tomcat instance log to the same log stream. I'd like
> this stream to be viewable on a remote Windows workstation via a GUI app
> (via Lilith, I guess). Preferably, multiple GUIs on different
> workstations ought to be able to view the log stream simultaneously.
> Also, it would be great if something like ZeroConf could be used such
> that no mucking with config files and IP addresses will be necessary.
>
> I've had some luck getting all of this going with log4j and chainsaw,
> but the system has always been kinda flakey. I had everything set up
> with ZeroConf, but I had to write my own version of the
> ZeroConfSocketHubAppender to bump the port number when a socket bind
> failed to deal with the fact that multiple appenders would be created by
> my various web applications and would otherwise all contend for the same
> local port. I want something more reliable and robust.
>
> So, can anyone offer suggestions for getting to such a setup with
> Logback? Which sort of appender should I use? What gotchas should I be
> aware of?
>
> I quickly reviewed the document "Access log with logback, Jetty and
> Tomcat", but I find that document kinda confusing. Does this module
> simply offer a web interface to logs, or is it something more? Would it
> be any help in my situation if I'm not interested in accessing logs via
> HTTP?
>
> TIA for any help you can provide.
>
> Steve