[Xymon] Log/file monitoring based on occurrence?

[Michael Beatty]

You will need tell client-local.cfg which log to gather data from.  
While you can't specify in the last Y amount of time, you can specify Y 
amount of data.  So if you know your log file writes about 1000 bytes 
per hour... and you want to look back 4 hours, you would specify in 
client-local.cfg "log:/var/log/mylogfile:4000"  This will return the 
most recent 4000 bytes worth of data to Xymon.

Your next step is to configure analysis.cfg to tell xymon how to report 
on that data. If you want xymon to alert if it sees the word "ERROR", 
your analysis.cfg would have a line in it "LOG /var/log/mylogfile %ERROR"

Look at the analysis.cfg and client-local.cfg man pages for information 
on the LOG check.

Michael Beatty
Sherwin-Williams
IT Analyst/Developer
michael.beatty at sherwin.com
216-515-7374

On 01/09/2013 03:50 PM, Mike Burger wrote:
> I've got a situation at work where we're being tasked with monitoring
> failed logins. We've got logging and audit file creation in place...what
> I'm looking for is whether or not there's a way to have Xymon monitor
> those logs/files to look for X entries/occurrences within Y amount of
> time.
>
> The requirement is to try to do as much as this programatically as
> possible without having to resort to scripting or other measures that may
> be easily countered by a system admin.
>
> Thanks.