Log file monitoring with NSCA

Joerg Linge pitchfork at ederdrom.de
Fri Nov 20 07:57:17 CET 2009


Kumar, Ashish schrieb:
> Hello list,
> 
> We are testing log monitoring with NSCA and Nagios 3.0.6 on RHEL 5.  The
> NSCA is setup properly and functioning.  Our script is executing every
> minute to check for any critical and warning messages in log files and sends
> them one by one to NSCA server.
> 
> We executed following test cases:
> #1 100 messages with same contents but different severity (crit and warn)
> Result: OK, we get 100 e-mails
> 
> #2 100 messages with different contents and different severity
> Result: OK, we get 100 e-mails
> 
> #3 100 messages with different contents but same severity (crit or warn)
> Result: FAILED, we receive only 1 e-mail generated by first alert.  We have
> verified this in "View History For This Service"
> 
> I was just wondering if there is a way to not suppress notifications
> regardless of message contents and severity?  So we get an alert every time
> NSCA sends something interesting.

'is_volatile 1' is defined for this kind of services?

http://nagios.sourceforge.net/docs/3_0/objectdefinitions.html#service

Joerg

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