Re: Log files monitoring - forked Monit and Openview

[Peter van der Does]

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Just curious, but why are you using monit alongside Openview Operations?

Peter

Marco Ermini wrote:
> On 5/2/05, SorinS <address@hidden> wrote:
> 
>>Hi,
>>I was wondering whether there is any plan of implementing alerting for
>>certain events in log files. Something like:
>>
>>check file syslog with path /var/log/messages
>>   if match "^[A-Za-z][a-z][a-z] .[0-9] [0-9][0-9]:[0-9][0-9]:[0-9][0-9] 
>>.* .* .*$"  then alert
>>
>>or if match regepx "..." then alert
>>
>>Monit could maintain the offset of each file (a la logtail) so it would
>>check only the last  entries.
>>
>>Sorry if this is a bad ideea, but it would be certainly usefull for me
>>right now.
>>Cheers,
>>Sorin
> 
> 
> I don't think this is a bad idea.
> 
> I have a similar, but opposite :-) need. I need to produce a custom logfile
> instead of the monit's default one. This is needed to integrate Monit with
> other proprietary monitoring tools (specifically in my case, HP OpenView)
> which are already in place in the server farm.
> 
> It would be fine to be able to customize the logfile in a way similar to the
> Apache's one.
> 
> 
> Regards.
> 
> 
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