Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi all

I need to monitor the syslog on about 25 Unix machines..the idea is to have a perl script or something mail me the new lines that are added to the syslog file in last 5minutes or so..any ideas or pointers .I ma not a unix admin or perl coder..i am a sql programmer..that is why i am askin for the question..

regards
Hrishy

Hi,
You could use Big Brother for this. It's a free system management software that is very easy to setup.

It can monitor syslog and other logfiles, it can also monitor daemons, cpu, memory, diskspace etc.

Could be worth it if you are managing 25 machines.

It works on almost all Linux/Unix, windows, mvs, vms etc..

It can send email and has a nice web interface for watching the status of your machines.

check it out on www.bb4.org.

Hope it helps..

/Peter

Yes, I'd only suggest looking at automating what you are wanting to do with a commercial (or freeware) package.

Whilst you could do it yourself, the number of resource hours initially required doesn't become cost effective after you've done a few servers. Another point is that you'd still need to maintain all of those scripts - that is unless each system was setup identically.

If that is the case, do your scripts on one system and when happy, distribute to the others, but it's still a handfull to maintain and to document (if you do document??).

I did some modest SYSLOG, CPU and Diskspace reporting on two SCO 5.0.5 server with my former employer. The SYSLOG reporting only occurred at 23:55 in the form of an email (from memory) - I didn't want emails every 5mins and CPU/Diskspace was progressively reported on daily and majorly reported on the first of each month for the pervious month.

If you still want to script it, then I'll post them - but remember, it's not the greatest script in the world - I'm always learning.

Hi..

Could you please post your scripts? Its allways nice to see what other people are doing .. and maybe rip some good ideas


Thanks in advance

/Peter