[hobbit] Alering on log file entries

[Dominique Frise]

Wild, Phil wrote:
> Hello all,
>  
> I have a requirement to monitor a number of log files on one system and 
> to page different people depending on what it sees in the different 
> files. From what I can tell, this functionality is not available. Am I 
> wrong here?
>  
> My thoughts on setting this up would be to clone and modify the existing 
> bb-msgs feeder script to accept a different config file and report as a 
> different test and then through hobbit, set up alerts to the different 
> group for the additional test.
>  
> Is this a sound approach or is there a better way?
>  
> Cheers
>  
> Phil
> 
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We have exactely same requirements.

We did clone bb-msgs when we were using Big Brother and have not yet integrated 
this feature on our Hobbit system.
I don't think there is a better to this at the moment but maybe Henrik could 
think about this ;-)


Dominique
UNIL - University of Lausanne