[hobbit] Log File Monitoring Problem

[Buchan Milne]

On Tuesday 28 November 2006 21:41, James Wade wrote:
> I'm monitoring a logfile for "Incompatible Types" error.
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> However, recently, one of the log files came up with the error,
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> and Hobbit didn't detect it. Here's what I'm looking for:
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> CWWBE0085E: Incompatible types
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> This is what my log description looks like:
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> LOG /opt/log/SystemOut.log %J2CA0056I|J2CA0020E|Incompatible
> Types|Assertion COLOR=RED
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> Does it have to be lower case? Incompatible types

According to the man page, the LOG patterns are case-insensitive by default.

However, your problem is most likely the fact that you have a space in your 
regex. You probably need to quote it, something like this may work:

LOG /opt/log/SystemOut.log "%J2CA0056I|J2CA0020E|Incompatible Types|Assertion" 
COLOR=RED

While this isn't covered in the section on logs, it is covered in other 
sections of hobbit-clients.cfg (eg PROC).

Regards,
Buchan

-- 
Buchan Milne
ISP Systems Specialist - Monitoring/Authentication Team Leader
B.Eng,RHCE(803004789010797),LPIC-2(LPI000074592)
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