Monitoring Logs under Windows 2003 server

[Anthony Montibello]

HI,
This is something I been wanting to add to NC_NEt for a while, but have not
had the time to implement.

I have not yet heard of one availible specifically for nagios on a Windows
Host.

Assuming the Log Files are just TEXT

your best bet is to write a program that parses through text logs using
regular expessions.
This can be done through VB Scripts.
The tricky thing with VBS, or Dot Net is it handles RegExp slightly
differently than compared to UNIX but there are a series of Settings one
could use to get desired results from the Regexp.

THe other tricky thing with  Windows is making sure you file opening for
Read Only , since opening them with RW access may cause their corrosponding
apps to fail getting the file handles to its own log file.

The last thing to consider is the order of the file,
If the Log file always appends to the end then try to itterate through the
file from the end moving twords the begining untill you hit your stopping
point,

This way you can exit the loop early.

Tony (author of NC_NEt)

On Mon, Mar 2, 2009 at 3:20 PM, Masoud Tabrizi <masoud.tabrizi at gmail.com>wrote:

> I looked that the event log but does no good for me as I am trying to
> monitor application logs and not events logs. looking for something similar
> to check_logfiles on Unix.
> Thanks
>
>
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Curtis LaMasters [mailto:curtislamasters at gmail.com]
> Sent: Monday, March 02, 2009 3:10 PM
> To: Masoud Tabrizi
> Cc: nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net
> Subject: Re: [Nagios-users] Monitoring Logs under Windows 2003 server
>
> You could use NSClient++ with the event log plugin.  I'm not sure what
> you need exactly from the eventlog but it'll alert you when something
> happens.
>
> Curtis LaMasters
> http://www.curtis-lamasters.com
> http://www.builtnetworks.com
>
>
>
> On Mon, Mar 2, 2009 at 10:08 AM, Masoud Tabrizi
> <masoud.tabrizi at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Hello Everyone,
> >
> > I have a requirement to monitor a large number of application log files
> > under Win2003.
> >
> > Is there anything out there that can accomplish this?
> >
> > Using Nagios 2.9 and Nrpe_nt_0.8
> >
> >
> >
> > Thanks in advance
> >
> > M
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
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