<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <HTML><HEAD> <META HTTP-EQUIV="Content-Type" CONTENT="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1"> <TITLE>Re: [Nagios-users] Syslog check</TITLE> <META content="MSHTML 6.00.2800.1276" name=GENERATOR></HEAD> <BODY> <DIV>And even further on that subject, check_log2.pl in the contrib directory does check_log one up by adding a -n flag...</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Usage: check_log2.pl -l <log_file> -s <log_seek_file> -p <pattern> [-n <negpattern>] Usage: check_log2.pl [ -v | --version ] Usage: check_log2.pl [ -h | --help ]</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>-l, --logfile=<logfile> The log file to be scanned -s, --seekfile=<seekfile> The temporary file to store the seek position of the last scan -p, --pattern=<pattern> The regular expression to scan for in the log file -n, --negpattern=<negpattern> The regular expression to skip in the log file </DIV> <DIV>From my quick use of the two, I would recommend the check_log2.pl just because it happens to give you the flexibility to not only say find me something, but find me something... but if it has something else in it as well, dont trigger an alarm (the -n)</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>-ed</DIV> <BLOCKQUOTE dir=ltr style="MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px"> <DIV class=OutlookMessageHeader dir=ltr align=left>-----Original Message----- From: Marc Powell [mailto:marc@ena.com] Sent: Friday, December 05, 2003 9:11 AM To: mlist.nagios@inlan.inmics.fi; nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [Nagios-users] Syslog check </DIV> Not that it's obvious but check_log handles that. -- Marc -----Original Message----- From: MiikaT <mlist.nagios@inlan.inmics.fi> To: nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net <nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net> Sent: Fri Dec 05 07:41:06 2003 Subject: [Nagios-users] Syslog check Hi, is there a plugin for nagios, which could parse certain entries from syslog or any other log files and create alerts? -MiikaT ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: SF.net Giveback Program. Does SourceForge.net help you be more productive? Does it help you create better code? SHARE THE LOVE, and help us help YOU! Click Here: <A href="http://sourceforge.net/donate/">http://sourceforge.net/donate/</A> _______________________________________________ Nagios-users mailing list Nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net <A href="https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/nagios-users">https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/nagios-users</A> ::: Please include Nagios version, plugin version (-v) and OS when reporting any issue. ::: Messages without supporting info will risk being sent to /dev/null </BLOCKQUOTE></BODY></HTML>