checking for errors in messages file using Nagios

[Marc Powell]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: nagios-users-bounces at lists.sourceforge.net [mailto:nagios-users-
> bounces at lists.sourceforge.net] On Behalf Of David Rivera
> Sent: Saturday, February 17, 2007 8:07 PM
> To: nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net
> Subject: [Nagios-users] checking for errors in messages file using
Nagios
> 
> 
> Using Nagios,
> 
> How can i get it to check for errors such as CPU/Memory/drive errors
that
> get logged in /var/adm/messages on Solaris and Linux boxes?

There are a number of plugins available for checking for strings in log
files, both included in the standard plugins (check_log) and at
NagiosExchange (check_log2.pl). There are probably others as well.

--
Marc

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