[Xymon] monitoring multiple logfiles

[Phil Crooker]

Hi,

You are right, it won't re-alert. The problem here, I think, is how do
you distinguish between different errors when the format of the log
entries is unknown? Xymon also would need to keep a table of which
errors had already triggered alerts but have not yet been resolved so it
isn't sending duplicate alerts. And how would it know when something is
resolved just from the logs? I think the best way to handle multiple
conditions would be to use separate tests for what you want to monitor
and not rely on logs as the primary source for testing.

hope that helps.


>>> On 15/08/2011 at 11:05 PM, in message
<CAPA+ETfjQawBjAeoWsd+y=0kxeyFDE14-_SdPw01M-tf1XBrKw at mail.gmail.com>,
"Gatis
A." <gatis.anee at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I am monitoring multiple text based logfiles with xymon and having a
> following problem.
> If "msgs" is already red because of an error in one logfile and at
the same
> time while "msgs" is still red new error comes in into another(or the
same
> no matter) logfile I will not get any notification about that..
> Is there any way how can we deal with that?
> 
> Thank you!