Trying to redirect jboss server logs into rsyslog

Issue

What I am trying to do is the following. I want to take the output from JBoss and send it to rsyslog which is a newer more robust syslog process. I have made the change in the jboss-log4j.xml as follows.

<appender name="SYSLOG" class="org.apache.log4j.net.SyslogAppender">
     <errorHandler class="org.jboss.logging.util.OnlyOnceErrorHandler"/>
     <param name="Facility" value="LOCAL7"/>
     <param name="FacilityPrinting" value="true"/>
     <param name="SyslogHost" value="localhost"/>
     <layout class="org.apache.log4j.PatternLayout">
       <param name="ConversionPattern" value="[%d{ABSOLUTE},%c{1}] %m%n"/>
     </layout>
   </appender>

<root>
   <priority value="${jboss.server.log.threshold}"/>
   <appender-ref ref="CONSOLE"/>
   <appender-ref ref="FILE"/>
   <appender-ref ref="SYSLOG"/>
</root>

• How to direct logs from a JBoss Application to a Centralized Logging Server (RSyslog) ?
• I have been able to get the output written to SYSLOG on a local VM host but when using RSYSLOG I am unable to get the output.