[rsyslog-notify] Forum Thread: Re: omkafka only wants to publish to localhost:9092 - (Mode 'reply')

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User: sfcloudman 
Forumlink: http://kb.monitorware.com/viewtopic.php?p=26597#p26597

Message: 
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Ok, I finally figured this out. Maybe this will help others using rsyslog
with omkafka.

The kafka brokers have a server.properties files that is the configuration
per broker.

In server.properties there is a parameter called advertised.listeners:

# Hostname and port the broker will advertise to producers and consumers.
If not set, 
# it uses the value for "listeners" if configured.  Otherwise, it will use
the value
# returned from java.net.InetAddress.getCanonicalHostName().
advertised.listeners=PLAINTEXT://kafka-1:9092

By default this is commented out so you get what ever the
CanonicalHostName() returns.

When rsyslog loads the omkafka module it connects to the host in the
brokers =['hostname:9092'] config but the advertised listeners returns a
different host , if not properly configured, which will force subsequent
connects from omkafka to fail.

This is NOT a rsyslog bug like I thought in my previous post.