[Xymon] Monitoring logfiles with changing names on a linux client

[Becker Christian]

Hey Adam,


“I think something like this might work:
LOG     %/path/to/log/Log.File_ABC.*.log ERROR COLOR=red“

Having modified the line as mentioned by you in the above example did the trick.
Thank you folks!

Regards
Christian

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Von: Xymon [mailto:xymon-bounces at xymon.com] Im Auftrag von Adam Goryachev
Gesendet: Dienstag, 14. Juni 2016 15:09
An: xymon at xymon.com
Betreff: Re: [Xymon] Monitoring logfiles with changing names on a linux client

On 14/06/16 23:04, Becker Christian wrote:
Hey Jeremy,


brilliant!

I decided to go with a mix of option 1 and option2.

This is what I’ve put in client-local.cfg:
log:`ls /path/to/log/Log.File_ABC*.log| grep $(date +%Y%m%d)`:10240

Now i’m getting 6 logfiles in the msgs column -> great!

This is what I’ve put in analysis.cfg for the specific linux client:
LOG     %/path/to/log/Log.File_ABC*.log ERROR COLOR=red

However, this does NOT let the msgs column go red, although the files do contain the keyword ERROR, exactly matching the case. And I can see those keywords on the msgs page as well.
What is going wrong here now?
I think something like this might work:
LOG     %/path/to/log/Log.File_ABC.*.log ERROR COLOR=red

C* means zero or more of the letter C, while .* means 0 or more of any character....

Also, it isn't "anchored" at the beginning/end, so you shouldn't need to add a .* to the beginning/end....

Hope that helps.

Regards,
Adam
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