I just haven't had a chance to test it much. If I recall correctly, it didn't monitor everything that we currently monitor with big brother. I'll have to investigate it further.
Thanks,
Nicole
From: Larry Barber [mailto:user-6ef9c2864140@xymon.invalid]
Sent: Friday, October 05, 2012 4:28 PM
To: Nicole Beck
Cc: xymon at xymon.com
Subject: Re: [Xymon] monitoring /var/log/messages for new occurence of a string
Is there some reason you can't use a Xymon client?
Thanks,
Larry Barber
On Fri, Oct 5, 2012 at 2:00 PM, Nicole Beck <user-80034b0579c6@xymon.invalid<mailto:user-80034b0579c6@xymon.invalid>> wrote:
Hi,
The answer to this is probably in the archives already, but I didn't find it.
I'm running Xymon 4.2.3 server on RHEL, and running Big Brother on the clients. I setup the bb-msgstab file on a Linux client to alert for a specific string in /var/log/messages. What I'm seeing is that anytime /var/log/messages is updated, we get an alert for the string we are testing for, even if that string occurred hours ago. Is there a way to parse the file to only send an alert if it is a new occurrence of the string? We only rotate this file once a week, so we might get an alert on something that's a day old.
Thanks!
Nicole Beck