I do not think that this is not supported. I believe the documentation states that you can write a script that will supply a required file name (if the file name keeps changing). In your case, you are wanting the agent to scan an unknown number of files. Read the fine manual.
Just curious, why can't you update your syslogd to create a combined file as well as individual files. This is fairly easy to do in syslog-ng or rsyslog.
GLH
On Fri, Oct 22, 2010 at 10:13 AM, Taylor Lewick <tlewick at tradebotsystems.com
wrote:
We've set up our network devices to syslog to the xymon server.
So in /var/log/xymon-syslog there are several syslog files, one for each device, and the files are named net-hostname
In client-local.cfg, can I set up one log entry to read all of these files?
Meaning, should the following be valid:
log:/var/log/xymon-syslog/net-*:10240
Its not working, as xymon reports no such file or directory, so the regex isn't expanding to find all filenames. So I'm wondering if anyone else is doing something similar?
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