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color=#0000ff size=2>Hi Fabio,</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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you mean looking for specific patterns in various logfiles, i can offer you the
check_logfiles plugin. You define where to search, what to search for and Nagios
will send you a notification if the "what" appears in the
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size=2>H<SPAN class=184542714-08102007>ave a look at <A
href="http://www.consol.com/opensource/nagios/check-logfiles/examples">http://www.consol.com/opensource/nagios/check-logfiles/examples</A> for
an example, how you can use Nagios to look for SAN-related error messages in the
Solaris /var/adm/messages file.</SPAN></FONT></FONT></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial><FONT color=#0000ff><FONT size=2><SPAN
class=184542714-08102007>Gerhard</SPAN></FONT></FONT></FONT></DIV>
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<FONT face=Tahoma size=2><B>Von:</B>
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[mailto:nagios-users-bounces@lists.sourceforge.net] <B>Im Auftrag von
</B>Fabio Iovine<BR><B>Gesendet:</B> Montag, 8. Oktober 2007
16:09<BR><B>An:</B> nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net<BR><B>Betreff:</B>
[Nagios-users] Monitoring unix (SUN) logfiles...<BR></FONT><BR></DIV>
<DIV></DIV>hi folks, <BR>I read on the website among the features Nagios can
monitor log files but I was unable to find more precise informations on how it
does the monitoring. <BR><BR>can someone please tell me where I can find these
informations? <BR><BR>more, I'd like to understand whether Nagios can monitor
file existence? can someone help on this? <BR><BR>thanks in
advance,<BR>Fabio<BR></BLOCKQUOTE></BODY></HTML>