parsing log files on remote hosts

[Marouane HIMDI]

Why reinvent the weel. There are many plug-in that adrress this need . 

Personally I use check_logfiles
http://www.consol.com/opensource/nagios/check-logfiles without any problem.

there are many examples in that website that can help you

 

Best regards 

 

 

Dr Marouane HIMDI
Ingénieur R&D/R&D Engineer

 



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De : Gary Every [mailto:gevery at gmail.com] 
Envoyé : vendredi 17 avril 2009 17:00
À : kaouther mechri
Cc : Nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net
Objet : Re: [Nagios-users] parsing log files on remote hosts

 

#!/bin/bash

LOGFILE="/tmp/logfile"

WORD="word_to_find"

GREP=/bin/grep

found=`$GREP -i $WORD $LOGFILE`

if [ -z $found ]  ## $found is zero bytes

then

  ok=1

  RETSTRING=0 ## To be used for the exit code

  LINE="No instances found"

else
  ok=0

  RETSTRING=1

  LINE=$found

fi

 

echo $LINE

exit $RETSTRING

 

## End of snippet

 

 

On Fri, Apr 17, 2009 at 7:35 AM, kaouther mechri <kmechri at gmail.com> wrote:

Hello All,

I am seraching a way to parse some  application log files on remote hosts
and grep for specific words, I need to add this as a nagios check. 

Can anyone help me 
kind regards
kaouther 

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