[Xymon] monitoring /var/log/messages for new occurence of a string

[Larry Barber]

Is there some reason you can't use a Xymon client?

Thanks,
Larry Barber

On Fri, Oct 5, 2012 at 2:00 PM, Nicole Beck <nskyrca at syr.edu> wrote:

>  Hi,****
>
> The answer to this is probably in the archives already, but I didn’t find
> it.****
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> I’m running Xymon 4.2.3 server on RHEL, and running Big Brother on the
> clients.  I setup the bb-msgstab file on a Linux client to alert for a
> specific string in /var/log/messages.  What I’m seeing is that anytime
> /var/log/messages is updated, we get an alert for the string we are testing
> for, even if  that string occurred hours ago.    Is there a way to parse
> the file to only send an alert if it is a new occurrence of the string?  We
> only rotate this file once a week, so we might get an alert on something
> that’s a day old.****
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> Thanks!****
>
> Nicole Beck****
>
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