What if the standard entry was extended:
log:/var/log/messages:10240
log:/var/log/file-with-html:10240:htmlThat would allow any log file to be designated for url-encoding before being uploaded to Xymon, without breaking existing configurations.
Or did I miss the point of the original question?
Ralph Mitchell
On Fri, Mar 13, 2015 at 10:10 PM, J.C. Cleaver <cleaver at terabithia.org> wrote:
On Fri, March 13, 2015 4:11 pm, Shawn Heisey wrote:
I have a log entry that looks like this:
[2015-03-02 13:32:43.011110] E [dht-linkfile.c:213:dht_linkfile_setattr_cbk] 0-mdfs-dht: setattr of uid/gid on /newscom/mdfs/ZUMA/zumaamericaseight/docs/364/090 :<gfid:00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000> failed (Invalid argument)
This is in the gluster NFS log. I wanted to stop getting alarms on this log entry, so I looked at what I get when I click on the red icon under "msgs" in my browser ... only that shows up like this (not exactly the same log entry, but the format is the same):
.2015-03-13 22:48:18.447034] E [dht-linkfile.c:213:dht_linkfile_setattr_cbk] 0-mdfs-dht: setattr of uid/gid on /newscom/mdfs/IS/isphotos/docs/056/515 : failed (Invalid argument)
The problem is that the browser interpreted the part starting with "<gfid:" and ending with ">" as an HTML tag, so it didn't display it. I did not realize this was happening, so I built an "ignore" line for client-local.cfg that did not include that part, and I was really scratching my head as to why my ignore did not work.
Would it be possible to automatically convert characters in log entries that are special to HTML into their HTML equivalents for display in a browser? In this case, < would become < ... > would be %gt; ... and so on.
Thanks, Shawn
Shawn,
It would require a code change, however this would be possible. Unfortunately, it would also prevent people from adding their own useable HTML links into the content (which is either a feature or a bug, I suppose)
That may specifically be a useful tradeoff in the case of log files, however.
Regards,
-jc
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