[hobbit] Messages file not reporting

Fri Feb 3 16:55:35 CET 2006

Yes, Linux based. I will  have to look into what you are doing. I am
wondering if maybe a grep on the log file with the expression "WARNING"
would return only those warnings. Then bump up against the timestamp to
see if it is old. Beyond an hour, ignore it. This would give me the
alert and then I could shut it off and it would go past the time stamp.
Big Brother gave you a file to show for each machine what you were
looking to alert on. 
Thanks for giving me a direction to go. 

On Fri, 2006-02-03 at 08:41 -0500, Allan.Marillier at dana.com wrote:

> 
> Hi Edward - I understand your frustration - I've been through the same
> things myself, and also initially not found the FAQ indicating that
> syslog monitoring is not yet supported. I believe that Henrik is
> making it a priority since so many of us are asking for it but there
> is no news yet or commitment from him on when it will be available. 
> 
> I searched deadcat.net and didn't find anything that looked worth
> using to me, but I may have missed it. One thing I have been working
> on, but I've had a few problems, is writing a custom extension. The
> extension itself is very easy to do - e.g. I have written two for my
> Linux servers, one to run some sql code to attach to an Oracle
> instance and report green if it is up or red if it is down, and
> another to check LAN adapter settings and turn yellow if it is not set
> to 100Mb full duplex. I have been working on a syslog monitor which
> looks at /var/log/messages, checks the inode to be sure logrotate has
> not run, and then uses tail to parse the last n lines. I determine n
> by checking how many lines are in the file with wc and recording that
> to a file on disk, then later come back and do the same again. If the
> inode is the same, and wc -l returned 1000 but now returns 1057, then
> I do tail -n 57 /var/log/messages | grep -i error and look for any
> problems. 
> 
> The problem I've encountered is that sometimes the inode changes. Yes,
> it really does and I'm not crazy, give it a try on Linux.
> Copy /var/log/messages, then ls -al -i the copy. Edit it with vi, even
> if all you do is open, then write and quit with no actual changes, and
> more often than not, the inode will change. I don't understand it. If
> I can get this working I'd be happy to share my custom extension with
> you - or maybe you will have some ideas on a different and more robust
> approach. 
> 
> I'm assuming of course that you're Unix/Linux based, which is not
> always a good assumption! 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> Edward Croft
> <ecroft at openratings.com> 
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> 02/02/2006 05:16 PM 
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> On Thu, 2006-02-02 at 22:31 +0100, Etienne Roulland wrote: 
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> Edward Croft wrote:
> > Why thank you. I did find the one line:
> > It does not currently provide any data for the system-log "msgs"
> column.
> >
> > That is all it says. Does not currently. Sooooo when can it be 
> > expected, if ever?
> > This one thing prevents me from using it as the programs that
> monitor 
> > our systems
> > write warnings into the log file which currently gets picked up by
> big 
> > brother and an
> > alert sent.
> 
> 
> You can use external script from http://www.deadcat.net/to monitor
> your 
> logfiles.
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> Thank you. I appreciate your response.
> 
> -- 
> Edward M. Croft
> Sr. Systems Engineer
> Open Ratings, Inc.
> 200 West Street
> Waltham, MA 02451-1121
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