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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Monitor log entries in log files with no Date format? - Efficient logcheck? Post 302747431 by SkySmart on Friday 21st of December 2012 09:25:48 AM
Old 12-21-2012
Monitor log entries in log files with no Date format? - Efficient logcheck?
is there a way to efficiently monitor logfiles that do not have a date or time format? i have several logs on several different servers that need to be monitored. but i realized writing a script for this would be very complex and time consuming giving the variety of things i need to check for i.e. check if log file exist, check if log has read permissions, check strings, etc.

i know log file monitoring is essential on basically all UNIX systems. my question is, what method are some of you using, and which ones are the easiest to set up and use? and to go back to my first question, how do you monitor the logs that simply do not have a date and time in them?

OS: linux, sunos, hpux, aix
bash/sh
 

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LEARN ABOUT DEBIAN

torrus_monitor

TORRUS_MONITOR(8)						      torrus							 TORRUS_MONITOR(8)

NAME

       monitor - Torrus Monitor.

SYNOPSIS

       torrus monitor --tree=TREENAME [options...]

DESCRIPTION

       This command starts the Monitor process for the tree TREENAME. By default it forks into a daemon, sets the log output file to
       /var/log/torrus/monitor.TREENAME.log, performs one monitoring cycle, and sleeps until the next cycle is scheduled. In daemon mode the log
       file can be reopened by sending it a SIGHUP signal.

OPTIONS

       --nodaemon
	   Prevents the process from becoming a daemon and sets the log to STDERR.

       --runonce
	   Instructs the script to run once and exit. Implies --nodaemon.

       --delay=N
	   Makes the daemon sleep for N minutes before starting the first cycle.  This would happen on the daemon startup and also after each
	   configuration recompilation.  For example, when monitor and collector start simultaneously, the collector needs some time to retrieve
	   the data being monitored.

       --debug
	   Sets the log level to debug.

       --verbose
	   Sets the debug level to info.

       --help
	   Displays a help message.

FILES

       /etc/torrus/conf/torrus-siteconfig.pl
	   Torrus site configuration script.

       /var/log/torrus/monitor.TREENAME.log
	   Monitor's log for the tree TREENAME.

SEE ALSO

       torrus(8)

NOTES

       See more documentation at Torrus home page: http://torrus.org

AUTHOR

       Stanislav Sinyagin <ssinyagin@yahoo.com>

torrus 2.03							    2013-07-26							 TORRUS_MONITOR(8)
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