How to filter Messages from a Remote System and log into specific files on a rsyslog server?

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Issue

  • How to filter Messages from a Remote System and log into specific files on a rsyslog server?

  • On rsyslog server, how to filter out all httpd (apache) logs from client 10.65.211.211 is logged to /var/log/httpd.example.com and snmpd logs from same system to  /var/log/snmpd.example.com?

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6
  • rsyslog

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