R: R: Notify on sigle events

[Andreas Ericsson]

Jason Martin wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 19, 2005 at 09:09:48AM -0600, jeff vier wrote:
> 
>>>Well, my customer want to receive notifications every time
>>>some particular 
>>>strings are written inside that log file. 
>>>Probably Nagios can not do this ....
>>
>>Have you had a look at check_log?
>>It does exactly what you are (apparently) asking.
> 
> If you are looking for an alert *every time* a string appears,
> then using an active check won't work. Nagios will alert once
> *per polling interval* that a string appeared, but if the string
> appeared 3 times in an interval then you'll only get one alert.
> 
> To get individual alerts you'll need to use a passive check and
> set the service to volitile.
> 

No. The check_log2.pl file can lseek into the file and only scan the new 
part. It will reset to okay immediately on the second attempt though, so 
one will need max_check_attempts 1.

> -Jason Martin

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Andreas Ericsson                   andreas.ericsson at op5.se
OP5 AB                             www.op5.se
Lead Developer


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