[Xymon] Windows log monitoring

[Neil Simmonds]

I don’t like to correct you Henrik but BBWin 0.13 can monitor log files as long as the log file name is hard coded in the client-local.cfg. What I’m unable to find an answer to is the unix like way of running a command to get the log file name for monitoring.

I suspected WinPSClient might be the option for this so now you have suggested it’s possible in that, it’s worth me investing the time to install it on a server and do some testing.

From: Xymon [mailto:xymon-bounces at xymon.com] On Behalf Of henrik at hswn.dk
Sent: 04 February 2014 11:19
To: xymon at xymon.com
Subject: Re: [Xymon] Windows log monitoring


Den 2014-02-04 11:53, Neil Simmonds skrev:
I want to monitor some windows logs that are named with a date/time stamp using BBWin in central mode.
I’ve tried putting a command in backticks in client-local.cfg ( log:` dir /B D:\Transact\Transact\Server\Logs\*.tr1`:10240 ) but although that command works perfectly in a windows command prompt, I don’t get anything monitored. If I hard code the name of the file all works as expected.
At the moment I suspect that what I want to do is not possible but I thought I’d check with the mailing list before I go looking in to external scripts to do this.
BBWin cannot monitor log files, only the Windows event-log.
The Powershell-based WinPSClient appears to do logfile-checks like the Unix-based Xymon client.

Regards,
Henrik

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