My two cents/pence/francs/pesetas/whatever (I am overcharging):
I think it would be cool if the Hobbit client could watch arbitrary log files for arbitrary messages and turn that into status alarms. But don't assume that /var/log or /var/adm or /var/adm is accessible to ordinary (as in Hobbit client) users -- not around here, anyway. Besides, I already have another solution for managing my UNIX syslogs -- what I don't have is a way to manage all of my application log files.
Wonder how it would work if the client somehow retrieved "orders" from the BB server at startup and this was used to drive a client-side scanner? I like the notion of centralized configuration, but...
Otherwise, you might as well forward all the logs to the central server (syslog-ng?) and have the server parse them. But this wouldn't work for the logs that I want to root through with the clients.
GLH
-----Original Message----- From: Rob Munsch [mailto:rmunsch at solutionsforprogress.com] Sent: Wednesday, February 15, 2006 4:22 PM To: hobbit at hswn.dk Subject: Re: [hobbit] Logfile monitoring - I'd like some comments
Henrik Stoerner wrote:
the amount of log data that Hobbit needs to process. So you can setup a
regexp of stuff in the logfile that you *never* want to see, and a regexp of stuff that you *always* want to report - regardless of how much the log grows.
Well, that covers my comment. I'd much rather give a list of "this stuff is always Good" than try to cover every instance of Bad, so that's awesome.
It would be ideal if the central config was somewhat bb-hosts-ish, and could accept (in addition to aforementioned includes) host-specific directives for what to log. I am assuming that how to react will already be host-specific like every other test, yes?
As far as the logs rotating out... couldn't hobbit look for an environment variable for the format of the rotated logs...? The filenames vary host to host, but on a given host, a quick look at /var/log tells you what to expect, right?
Lastly - being someone who couldn't program his way out of a paper stack, i will now cheekily suggest that on install, hobbit could look at /var/log and guesstimate the format, and ask for human confirmation (as it already does for the hobbit user and homedir).
Even if this automated | dream doesn't happen, could it still be set manually or via config?
-- Rob Munsch Solutions For Progress IT
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