[Xymon] Ignore all log messages

[Scot Kreienkamp]

Does anyone know if the ignore and trigger statements are applied per log?  For example:

Log  /var/log/messages
Ignore postgres
Trigger  fatal
Log /var/log/postgres
Ignore stuff
Trigger test

Is the first set of ignore/trigger done only on the first log and the second set to the second log, or are all the ignores and triggers cumulative to all the logs?

Thanks!


From: Scot Kreienkamp
Sent: Wednesday, December 03, 2014 12:58 PM
To: xymon at xymon.com
Subject: RE: Ignore all log messages

OK, so after searching through the mailing list for two hours and finding an old post about using different syntax in client-local I've changed it to this:

My new config:

log:/var/log/postgres.log:10240
ignore rmstomcat|jboss
trigger FATAL|Fatal|FAIL|Fail|fail|Error|ERROR|error|Error|timestamp|deadlock|Deadlock|password authentication failed|pg_hba.conf|invalid magic number
log:/var/log/messages:10240
ignore postgres|RMS Printing Subsystem|connection received|disconnection|connection authorized
trigger FAIL|Fail|fail|Error|ERROR|error|Error|timestamp|deadlock|Deadlock|password authentication failed|pg_hba.conf|invalid magic number
file:/etc/passwd

Not sure if this is correct or not.  Does this match up with anyone elses?

From: Xymon [mailto:xymon-bounces at xymon.com] On Behalf Of Scot Kreienkamp
Sent: Wednesday, December 03, 2014 9:58 AM
To: xymon at xymon.com
Subject: [Xymon] Ignore all log messages

Hi everyone,

Does anyone have any advice on messages logging?  I have a log for postgres that gets so many lines written in a day there's no way it can transfer all of them to the Xymon server.  I don't need any of that traffic anyway.  The only lines I need are ones that contain a few specific words.  So I put this in client-local.cfg:

[servername]
log:/var/log/postgres.log:10240
ignore .*
trigger %(FATAL|Fatal|FAIL|Fail|fail|Error|ERROR|error|Error|timestamp|deadlock|Deadlock|password authentication failed|pg_hba.conf|invalid magic number)
log:/var/log/messages:10240
ignore %(postgres|RMS Printing Subsystem|connection received|disconnection|connection authorized)
trigger %(FAIL|Fail|fail|Error|ERROR|error|Error|timestamp|deadlock|Deadlock|password authentication failed|pg_hba.conf|invalid magic number)
file:/etc/passwd


However, that doesn't seem to produce any log messages from the postgres log even when it should match one of the triggers.  Client and server is version 4.3.17.

I appreciate any ideas anyone has, or if someone has already done this if you could share your config I'd like to see how you did it.

Thanks!

Scot



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