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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">Try shortening the name you are using, and at least remove the space between Connection and Monitoring.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">Jar Lyons<br>
Senior Software Engineer<br>
Tideworks Technology, Inc.<br>
(206) 344-3016 <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif""> Anand, Sakshi [mailto:sa185043@ncr.com]
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<b>Sent:</b> Monday, March 21, 2011 11:13 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> Nagios Users List<br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [Nagios-users] Issue in configuring Nagios Appender<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:blue">Thanks Lyons.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:blue">Now, after adding the appender-ref, I am getting following exception -
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<p><span style="color:red">log4j:ERROR Parsing error on line 18 and column 94<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><span style="color:red">log4j:ERROR Attribute value "NAGIOS-Connection Monitoring" of type ID must be a name.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><span style="color:red">log4j:ERROR Parsing error on line 47 and column 54<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><span style="color:red">log4j:ERROR Attribute value "NAGIOS-Connection Monitoring" of type IDREF must be a name.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><span style="color:red"> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:blue">Does anyone have any idea about reason of this error.</span><span style="color:red"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:blue">Thanks & Regards,</span><span style="color:red"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:blue">Sakshi Anand</span><span style="color:red"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif""> Jarlath Lyons [mailto:Jarlath.Lyons@Tideworks.com]
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<b>Sent:</b> Monday, March 21, 2011 8:39 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> Nagios Users List<br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [Nagios-users] Issue in configuring Nagios Appender</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">It appears the appender is correctly defined, but just not linked to the root logger ….<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">Try this …<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:black"><root>
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<p><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:black"><level value="DEBUG" />
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<p><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:black"><appender-ref ref="CA" />
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<p><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:black"><appender-ref ref="FA" /><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:black"><appender-ref ref="NAGIOS-Connection Monitoring" /><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:black"></root>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">Jar Lyons<br>
Senior Software Engineer<br>
Tideworks Technology, Inc.<br>
(206) 344-3016 <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D"><img width="200" height="51" id="Picture_x0020_1" src="cid:image001.png@01CBE869.AAA289A0" alt="cid:image001.gif@01C8E1BC.4F6ACE00"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif""> Anand, Sakshi [mailto:sa185043@ncr.com]
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<b>Sent:</b> Monday, March 21, 2011 5:14 AM<br>
<b>To:</b> Nagios Users List<br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [Nagios-users] Issue in configuring Nagios Appender<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:blue">Plz help.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:blue">Regards,</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:blue">Sakshi Anand</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif""> Anand, Sakshi
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<b>Sent:</b> Sunday, March 20, 2011 11:31 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> Nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net<br>
<b>Subject:</b> [Nagios-users] Issue in configuring Nagios Appender</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:black">All,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:black">I am trying to configure nagios appender for one of my applications which is using log4j to log data. Also, my NSCA configuration is running fine.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:black">However, I am not able to send checks from the application using nagios appender.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:black"> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:black">Following is what my log4j.xml looks like (it is successfully writing to console and to log file too) -
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:black"> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:black"><?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?>
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<p><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:black"><!DOCTYPE log4j:configuration SYSTEM "log4j.dtd">
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<p><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:black"><log4j:configuration xmlns:log4j='http://jakarta.apache.org/log4j/'>
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<p><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:black"><appender name="CA" class="org.apache.log4j.ConsoleAppender">
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:black"><layout class="org.apache.log4j.PatternLayout">
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<p><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:black"><param name="ConversionPattern" value="%-4r [%t] %-5p %c %x - %m%n" />
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<p><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:black"></layout>
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<p><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:black"><appender name="FA" class="org.apache.log4j.FileAppender">
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<p><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:black"><param name="File" value="C:\\eclipse\\workspace2\\NSCA-PassiveChecks\\nagiosAppenderDemo\\Log4jDemo.log"/>
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<p><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:black"><layout class="org.apache.log4j.PatternLayout">
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<p><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:black"><param name="ConversionPattern" value="%-4r [%t] %-5p %c %x - %m%n" />
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<p><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:black"></appender><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:black"><appender class="org.apache.log4j.nagios.NagiosAppender" name="NAGIOS-Connection Monitoring"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:black"><param name="Host" value="rpc1934.daytonoh.ncr.com"/><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:black"><param name="Port" value="5667"/><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:black"><param name="Log4j_Level_ERROR" value="NAGIOS_CRITICAL"/><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:black"><param name="Log4j_Level_FATAL" value="NAGIOS_CRITICAL"/><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:black"><param name="ExcludeFilterEnabled" value="true"/><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:black"><param name="PatternFilterFile" value="NagiosIncludeExcludeFilters.properties"/><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:black"><param name="SendStartupMessageOK" value="Application Errors Cleared"/><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:black"><layout class="org.apache.log4j.PatternLayout"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:black"><param name="ConversionPattern" value="server: %X{Connection Monitoring}: %m%n"/><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:black"></root>
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<p><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:black"></log4j:configuration><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:black"> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:black">Please help me in finding the issue and a way to debug it.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:black"> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:black">Thanks & Regards,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:black">Sakshi Anand<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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