[Xymon] problem with LOG and IGNORE in analysis.cfg

Lee, Raymond Raymond.Lee at CenturyLink.com
Fri Aug 12 21:12:13 CEST 2011


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Elizabeth Schwartz [mailto:betsy.schwartz at gmail.com]
> Sent: Friday, August 12, 2011 2:56 PM
> To: Lee, Raymond
> Cc: xymon at xymon.com
> Subject: Re: [Xymon] problem with LOG and IGNORE in analysis.cfg
>
> I think your regular expressions are not right. Try runnign them
> through pcretest.
>
> >                LOG /var/adm/messages %ERROR|WARNING COLOR=red
> IGNORE=TEST
>
> I think that should be %(ERROR|WARNING)


[Raymond Lee]

pcretest checks out fine:

        (xymon)@xymon:~$ pcretest
        PCRE version 7.8 2008-09-05

          re> /ERROR|WARNING/
        data> this is an ERROR
         0: ERROR
        data> this is a WARNING
         0: WARNING


And the man page for analysis.cfg has this example:


       Example: Trigger a yellow warning on all occurrences of the word "WARN‐
       ING"  or "NOTICE" in the "daemon.log" file, except those from the "lpr"
       system:
            LOG /var/log/daemon.log %WARNING|NOTICE COLOR=yellow IGNORE=lpr




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