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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'><!-- Converted from text/rtf format -->Hello,<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'><span
style='mso-spacerun:yes'> </span>This was asked a while ago, should be
something in the archives of help.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>I replied then but I monitor Windows
Events logs a different way now <span class=GramE>( thanks</span> mainly to
suggestions from this list ) so I’ll reply again.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>The way I do it is use a product called
snare (<a href="http://sourceforge.net/projects/snare/">http://sourceforge.net/projects/snare/</a>)
on the servers to send event logs in real time to a <span class=SpellE>syslog</span>
server, also my <span class=SpellE>nagios</span> box.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>I then use <span class=SpellE>syslog-ng</span>
to filter the logs into folders like /<span class=SpellE>var/log/remote-host/fileserver/Events.log</span>,
and have simple <span class=SpellE>perl</span> scripts to parse them for particular
errors/reports.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>I have one script that basically returns a
warning if there’s errors in the system log in the past 24 hours &
others to look for specific events, like <span class=SpellE>arcserve</span> back
up failure etc<span class=GramE>..</span><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>There’s a <span class=SpellE>plugin</span>
called check_log.pl or something similar that may be of use that comes with <span
class=SpellE>nagios</span>.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>Hope that’s of help!<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>Dave.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:36.0pt'><font size=2 face=Tahoma><span
lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma;mso-ansi-language:EN-US'>-----Original
Message-----<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>From:</span></b>
nagios-users-admin@lists.sourceforge.net
[mailto:nagios-users-admin@lists.sourceforge.net] <b><span style='font-weight:
bold'>On Behalf Of </span></b>Josh Van As<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Sent:</span></b> 02 October 2003 12:18<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>To:</span></b> nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Subject:</span></b> [Nagios-users] How can
Nagios interact with NT Event Logs?</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:36.0pt'><font size=3
face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p style='margin-left:36.0pt'><font size=2 face=Arial><span lang=EN-US
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;mso-ansi-language:EN-US'>How can
Nagios interact with NT Event Logs?</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
<p style='margin-left:36.0pt'><font size=2 face=Arial><span lang=EN-US
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;mso-ansi-language:EN-US'>I want to be
able to selectively look for events on my Windows Servers and</span></font><span
lang=EN-US style='mso-ansi-language:EN-US'> </span><font size=2 face=Arial><span
lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;mso-ansi-language:EN-US'>create
notification events if they</span></font><span lang=EN-US style='mso-ansi-language:
EN-US'> </span><font size=2 face=Arial><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial;mso-ansi-language:EN-US'>occur. </span></font><span
lang=EN-US style='mso-ansi-language:EN-US'> </span><font size=2 face=Arial><span
lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;mso-ansi-language:EN-US'>I
am pretty new to Nagios, so if anyone could give me a few ideas / suggestions
on how I could go about this, I would appreciate it.</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
<p style='margin-left:36.0pt'><font size=2 face=Arial><span lang=EN-US
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;mso-ansi-language:EN-US'>Thanks,</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
<p style='margin-left:36.0pt'><font size=2 face=Arial><span lang=EN-US
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;mso-ansi-language:EN-US'>Josh</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
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