README.md in fluent-plugin-secure-forward-0.0.4 vs README.md in fluent-plugin-secure-forward-0.1.0
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+ new
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# fluent-plugin-secure-forward
Fluentd input/output plugin to forward fluentd messages over SSL with authentication.
-**CURRENT STATUS: HIGHLY EXPERIMENTAL**
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This plugin makes you to be able to:
* protect your data from others in transferring with SSL
* with certificate signed and registered correctly
* with self-signed certificate (and generate certificate in in\_secure\_forward automatically)
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username sasatatsu
password karaage
</server>
</match>
+To specify keepalive timeouts, use `keepalive` configuration with seconds. SSL connection will be disconnected and re-connected for each 1 hour with configuration below. In Default (and with `keepalive 0`), connections will not be disconnected without any communication troubles. (This feature is for dns name updates, and SSL common key refreshing.)
+
+ <match secret.data.**>
+ type secure_forward
+ shared_key secret_string
+ self_hostname client.fqdn.local
+ keepalive 3600
+ <server>
+ host server.fqdn.local # or IP
+ # port 24284
+ </server>
+ </match>
+
## Senario (developer document)
* server
* in\_secure\_forward
* client
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* access deny on accept (against DoS)
* pluggable authentication database (input plugin)
* RDBMS, LDAP, or ...
* Authentication by clients certificate
* encryption algorithm option (output plugin)
-* balancing/failover (output plugin)
* TESTS!
* GET NEW MAINTAINER
## Copyright