Nagios Log Management Tips?

[Tom Nail]

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Rogelio Bastardo wrote:
> Anyone have any tips for dealing with Nagios logs?
> 
> Things are getting a little crazy, and I haven't even been logging very much!
> 
> e.g.
> 
> [root at nagios-server run]# find / *nagios*  -type f -size +1000000k
> -exec ls -lh {} \; | awk '{ print $9 ": " $5 }'
> /var/log/nagios/archives/nagios-08-14-2007-00.log: 2.3G
> /var/log/nagios/archives/nagios-08-13-2007-00.log: 3.4G
> /var/log/nagios/archives/nagios-08-12-2007-00.log: 2.6G
> /var/log/messages.4: 3.5G
> [root at nagios-server run]#
> 
 gzip comes to mind, since this is ASCII data it should compress nicely.
Also, there are several log rotation scripts out there, including the
"logrotate" utility supplied in RedHat and other Linux distros. Try "man
logrotate' on one of them for more information.


Cheers,

- -=Tom Nail
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