A simple command line python syslog client for generating test messages.

syslog-client.py

#!/usr/bin/env python

import argparse
import logging
import logging.handlers

parser = argparse.ArgumentParser(__file__,
                                 description="A syslog message generator")

parser.add_argument("--address",
                    "-a",
                    default="localhost",
                    help="The syslog message recipient address")

parser.add_argument("--port",
                    "-p",
                    type=int,
                    default=5514,
                    help="The syslog message recipient port")

parser.add_argument("--level",
                    "-l",
                    default="DEBUG",
                    help="The syslog message log level")

parser.add_argument("--message",
                    "-m",
                    required=True,
                    help="The syslog message")


def string_to_level(log_level):
    """ Convert a commandline string to a proper log level
    @param string log_level     command line log level argument
    @return logging.LEVEL       the logging.LEVEL object to return
    """
    if log_level == "CRITICAL":
        return logging.CRITICAL
    if log_level == "ERROR":
        return logging.ERROR
    if log_level == "WARNING":
        return logging.WARNING
    if log_level == "INFO":
        return logging.INFO
    if log_level == "DEBUG":
        return logging.DEBUG
    return logging.NOTSET


if __name__ == "__main__":
    args = parser.parse_args()
    syslogger = logging.getLogger('SyslogLogger')
    syslogger.setLevel(string_to_level(args.level))
    handler = logging.handlers.SysLogHandler(address=(args.address, args.port),
                                             facility=19)
    syslogger.addHandler(handler)
    syslogger.log(args.message)

Thanks, I was looking for something quick that I can use to generate messages,; I understand the script is old, but this is what is needed to work with the latest version of the logging module

replace:
syslogger.log(args.message)
with:
syslogger.log(string_to_level(args.level),args.message)

Thanks Nathan for this great script, I reused after doing some small changes and it is working fine.

The main change I did is using socktype=socket.SOCK_STREAM as argument of logging.handlers.SysLogHandler() function to user TCP instead of UDP.

Thanks again.
Hamid