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Zabbix item for last line of a log file
Post 303031766 by rbatte1 on Tuesday 5th of March 2019 12:35:33 PM
03-05-2019
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Maybe I wasn't clear on the initial post. Sorry about that. The process producing the display doesn't have direct access to the file.
We have multiple CentOS servers running various positions of our application testing programme and I'm being asked to get a display together which shows how they're all doing, batch state etc.. We destroy and re-create them all the time, but the Zabbix agent is in our VMWare template already so that is the mechanism of choice to get the data. It's shouldn't be too hard, but I'm stuck.
The server showing the display doesn't have access to the log file directly (NFS, SMB or an SSH password-less connection defined) If we did have, I could simply tail -1 /path/to/log but because we a frequently rebuilding, I'd rather not have to add another few steps and more complexity between them. There's lots to do already when we build them. With Zabbix, I can get the file contents but only for a small file, and these log files I want to read are very large.
We don't dare have Zabbix remote commands enabled because that is an entry point to attack the server. I know I can define the Zabbix item type as log with a key of log[/path/to/file], but then I don't know how to get at the content/last line.
The files will get quite large, but I can set the history low, because after that we just want the current position.
I'm happy to define the type as log if I could get that to work, but all I get back is a large number.
Naturally anything I can define in Zabbix will be added to the existing template so I don't have to set that up every time too.
I'm sure I'm missing something simple,
Robin (feeling like a fool
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We have multiple CentOS servers running various positions of our application testing programme and I'm being asked to get a display together which shows how they're all doing, batch state etc.. We destroy and re-create them all the time, but the Zabbix agent is in our VMWare template already so that is the mechanism of choice to get the data. It's shouldn't be too hard, but I'm stuck.
The server showing the display doesn't have access to the log file directly (NFS, SMB or an SSH password-less connection defined) If we did have, I could simply tail -1 /path/to/log but because we a frequently rebuilding, I'd rather not have to add another few steps and more complexity between them. There's lots to do already when we build them. With Zabbix, I can get the file contents but only for a small file, and these log files I want to read are very large.
We don't dare have Zabbix remote commands enabled because that is an entry point to attack the server. I know I can define the Zabbix item type as log with a key of log[/path/to/file], but then I don't know how to get at the content/last line.
The files will get quite large, but I can set the history low, because after that we just want the current position.
I'm happy to define the type as log if I could get that to work, but all I get back is a large number.
Naturally anything I can define in Zabbix will be added to the existing template so I don't have to set that up every time too.
I'm sure I'm missing something simple,
Robin (feeling like a fool
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runsvdir
runsvdir(8) System Manager's Manual runsvdir(8) NAME
runsvdir - starts and monitors a collection of runsv(8) processes SYNOPSIS
runsvdir [-P] dir [ log ] DESCRIPTION
dir must be a directory. log is a space holder for a readproctitle log, and must be at least seven characters long or absent. runsvdir starts a runsv(8) process for each subdirectory, or symlink to a directory, in the services directory dir, up to a limit of 1000 subdirectories, and restarts a runsv(8) process if it terminates. runsvdir skips subdirectory names starting with dots. runsv(8) must be in runsvdir's PATH. At least every five seconds runsvdir checks whether the time of last modification, the inode, or the device, of the services directory dir has changed. If so, it re-scans the service directory, and if it sees a new subdirectory, or new symlink to a directory, in dir, it starts a new runsv(8) process; if runsvdir sees a subdirectory being removed that was previously there, it sends the corresponding runsv(8) process a TERM signal, stops monitoring this process, and so does not restart the runsv(8) process if it exits. If the log argument is given to runsvdir, all output to standard error is redirected to this log, which is similar to the daemontools' readproctitle log. To see the most recent error messages, use a process-listing tool such as ps(1). runsvdir writes a dot to the read- proctitle log every 15 minutes so that old error messages expire. OPTIONS
-P use setsid(2) to run each runsv(8) process in a new session and separate process group. SIGNALS
If runsvdir receives a TERM signal, it exits with 0 immediately. If runsvdir receives a HUP signal, it sends a TERM signal to each runsv(8) process it is monitoring and then exits with 111. SEE ALSO
sv(8), runsv(8), runsvchdir(8), runit(8), runit-init(8), chpst(8), svlogd(8), utmpset(8), setsid(2) http://smarden.org/runit/ AUTHOR
Gerrit Pape <pape@smarden.org> runsvdir(8)