I think (someone correct me if I'm wrong) you might need the line to match to first, then what you'd like to ignore afterward. Our ignore rules, which I believe work (notice the double quotes, the ?i is case insensitive):
LOG /var/adm/messages \
%(?i)ERROR \
"IGNORE=%(?i)(nres_gethostbyaddr|simple bind failed - Invalid credentials|please upgrade FCSM|WARNING|NOTICE|fctl|FCSM|SRS Proxy|xrx8825tlh2|ImportAcsError|AcsError|File \{.*\}, error 2|No such file or directory|ViewMgr|Bad file format|Exec call for FormTek|cache_trif_image|UserQry|DESKTOP_EDMOSRV.STARTUP|Error Level: Informational|sshd.*Authentication failed for|DESKTOP_EDMOSRV.STARTUP.*local0.error|httpd.*(modsecurity|password))"
Spaces are okay. For any rules you'd like to test, you can use the pcretool command (available on my CentOS box, maybe not in your environment). Syntax is as follows:
-bash-3.2$ pcretest PCRE version 6.6 06-Feb-2006
re> /(corrupt label|wrong magic number)/
data> corrupt
No match
data> corrupt label
0: corrupt label
1: corrupt label
data> wrong magic number
0: wrong magic number
1: wrong magic number
Or for a case insensitive match:
-bash-3.2$ pcretest PCRE version 6.6 06-Feb-2006
re> /(?i)(corrupt label|wrong magic number)/
data> Corrupt label
0: Corrupt label
1: Corrupt label
data> corrupt label
0: corrupt label
1: corrupt label
data> asdf
No match
data> WRONG MAGIC NUMBER
0: WRONG MAGIC NUMBER
1: WRONG MAGIC NUMBER
data> wrong magic number
0: wrong magic number
1: wrong magic number
Good luck, hope that helps,
Matt.
Unix System Administrator
Computer Science Corporation
General Dynamics Land Systems
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From:
"Kevin Kelly" <user-46671a9fcf56@xymon.invalid>
To:
<xymon at xymon.com>
Date:
08/26/2010 10:52 AM
Subject:
[xymon] ignore certain things in a log file
Could somebody tell me why this won’t work?
HOST=testserver
LOG %/var/adm/messages kern "IGNORE=%(corrupt label|wrong magic number)"
Trying to ignore all lines in the messages file that contain those key words.
Thanks
Kevin
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