Hi,
I don't have any pointers but this idea might help
If you could enable passwordless ssh login to all machines, thru ssh, grep your log files with a pattern and redirect output to a file in those machines, scp that output file into a master node and check if file empty, good else not alert thru mail / console.
Good Luck
----- Original Message ----- From: Trevor Warren trevorwarren@yahoo.com To: ILUG-BOM linuxers@mm.ilug-bom.org.in Subject: [ILUG-BOM] online monitoring of log files on gnu-linux, aix and hp-ux Date: Wed, 3 Nov 2004 19:32:37 -0800 (PST)
Morning Guys/Gals,
Me has an urgent need of advice from your end. Hoping for some pointers.
For one of TCS's client we have configured Nagios and a host of other GPL'ed applns top aid him in Network Monitoring as part of a very large project. This last problem has me stumped.
In my network consisting of purely AIX/Gnu-Linux/HP-UX i have to provide a single console for monitoring all logs and trigger an alert/alarm as soon as a particular message comes up in the logs. These logs will be both system and application logs and hence the messages to be tracked has to be customisable.
Lemme know if someone has had this problem solved before or has any inkling of what appln we can make use of.
Trevor
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For one of TCS's client we have configured Nagios and a host of other GPL'ed applns top aid him in Network Monitoring as part of a very large project. This last problem has me stumped.
In my network consisting of purely AIX/Gnu-Linux/HP-UX i have to provide a single console for monitoring all logs and trigger an alert/alarm as soon as a particular message comes up in the logs. These logs will be both system and application logs and hence the messages to be tracked has to be customisable.
We use nagios, HP OV and Big Brother for monitoring our servers. So far Big Brother is the best that I have seen in terms of monitoring and sending emails/pager warnings.
Regards, Keith
On Fri, Nov 05, 2004 at 01:06:23PM +0800, Eshwar Ponraj wrote:
I don't have any pointers but this idea might help
If you could enable passwordless ssh login to all machines, thru ssh, grep your log files with a pattern and redirect output to a file in those machines, scp that output file into a master node and check if file empty, good else not alert thru mail / console.
That's not necessary, syslogd can log to a remote server.
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Satya