Nagios + Logsurfer or Swatch?

[Emmett Hogan]

Thanks for the suggestions from everyone on this.

Most folks pointed me to check_log2.pl in the contrib directory of the 
plugins distribution.  check_log2 is great for two reasons: 1) It's 
written in PERL, so I can hack on it, 2) it takes regular expressions, 
so you can bundle mutilple checks in one pass.

However, the major drawback to it, is that it returns only two states: 
OK, or WARNING.  There are some log messages which I would consider 
CRITICAL.  So, unless someone has a better suggestion...I think I will 
hack check_log2 to take parameters like this:

check_log2.pl -l <log_file> -s <log_seek_file> -cp <pattern> [-cn 
<negpattern>] -wp <pattern> [-wn <negpattern>]

Where "-cp" and "-cn" indicate the CRITICAL patterns to look for, and 
"-wp" and "-wn" are the WARNING patterns.

Anybody see any potential problems with that?

-Emmett

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