Check_log3 - solaris log monitoring

[Amalarasan Jayaraman]

Hi Jason,

   

--- Jason Martin <jhmartin at toger.us> wrote:

> On Thu, Mar 23, 2006 at 02:15:14PM -0800, Amalarasan
> Jayaraman wrote:
> >         My question is, how will I reset the
> status to
> > normal, from nagios, after the problem is fixed.
> If the plugin only looks at 'new' lines, then it'll
> automatically reset on the next probe, unless that
> probe too
> exhibits a problem.

The plugin retains the state information and it stays
in the same state

"	LOG FILE - No status change detected. Status=2"

you can see from the output the the check didn't find
any match but status =2 and it stays in critical. I
guess I can remove the state retention and try.

Thanks
Amal

> > want to monitor multiple search strings in the
> syslog
> > and may want to send alerts for every time the
> pattern
> > match is found or once in 2 hours (depends on the
> type
> > of error). I can afford to use multiple probes if
> > required.
> You might want to look at sending all your syslogs
> to a central
> server, and having Simple Event Correlator
> (http://freshmeat.net/projects/sec) send passive
> alerts in to
> Nagios about it. It is very good at handling
> X-matches-over-time
> and so on.
> 
> -Jason Martin
> -- 
> I lost a button hole today.
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