Plugin to check file for string?

[Max Hetrick]

Guy Waugh wrote:

> Does anyone know of a nagios plugin that will grep a file for a string?
> 
> I have a cronjob that logs output to a file and I basically want to grep 
> for 'cronjob successful' in this file, alerting Critical if the string 
> isn't found and OK if it is.

The check_file plugin that is part of OpenFusion's plugin pack can check 
a file for a regular expression. I've used it for this purpose.

http://www.openfusion.com.au/labs/nagios/

Regards,
Max

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