Not sure if this helps but one of the client side scripts I created checks log files for certain expressions and reports back to xymon if the error count is greater than the last report.

The script is a shell script running in cygwin and look something like:

#!/bin/sh

##############################################################################

The script was written sh to be used in cygwin in

conjunction with BBWin

The script checks the Application logs for errors or

exceptions

Requirements:

BBWin, Cygwin (Base install)

##############################################################################

CLEAR="clear"

RED="red"

YELLOW="yellow"

GREEN="green"

UNKNOWN="purple"

BB=BBWinCmd.exe

BBDISP=<BBWINSERVER>

MACHINE=hostname

COLUMN=<COLUMN_NAME>

COLOR=$GREEN

BBLOG=D:/Logs/AppLogs.txt

echo "Application Error Logs" > $BBLOG

if [ ! -e "D:/Logs/PREERRORS.log" ]; then

    `touch

D:/Logs/PREERRORS.log`

fi

PREERRORLOG=D:/Logs/PREERRORS.log

PREERRORS=cat D:/Logs/PREERRORS.log

APPLOG=D:/Logs/AppLog-"eval date +%Y%m%d".log

if [ -e $APPLOG ]; then

    ERRORS=`cat $APPLOG|

grep -i -e error -e exception | wc -l`

    else

    ERRORS=0

fi

if [ "$ERRORS" -gt "$PREERRORS" ]; then

COLOR=$RED

echo "App Errors = $ERRORS "\|" Previous Error Count = $PREERRORS" >> $BBLOG

echo "LOG:" >> $BBLOG

tail -n +1 $APPLOG| grep -m 10 -i -e error -e exception >> $BBLOG

echo "LOG END" >> $BBLOG

echo " "

...

$BBLOG

echo " "

...

$BBLOG

else

echo "App Errors = No New Errors "\|" Previous Error Count = $PREERRORS"

...

$BBLOG

fi

echo $ERRORS > $PREERRORLOG

Tell Hobbit about it

$BB $BBDISP status $MACHINE $COLUMN $COLOR "cat D:/Logs/AppLogs.txt"

exit 0

Date: Thu, 23 Apr 2009 08:58:22 +1000 From: Shea.Graeme.A at edumail.vic.gov.au To: hobbit at hswn.dk Subject: RE: [hobbit] monitoring text file

I posted a VB script to the shire that uses this idea to test the running of DCDiags. If you cut down that script so that it only opens your log file and looks for the word it will achieve what you want. Don't know how to get the method below to work.

Hope this helps

Regards Graeme

-----Original Message----- From: Johan Booysen [mailto:johan at matrix-data.co.uk] Sent: Wednesday, 22 April 2009 2:25 AM To: hobbit at hswn.dk Subject: [hobbit] monitoring text file

I basically use hobbit 4.2.0 more or less as it comes out of the box and that's been sufficient for us. The downside is that I don't actually know a lot about "advanced" features...

I want to monitor a plain text log file on one of our Windows servers (already running BBWin and reporting just fine). I've RTFM and came to the conclusion that I need to do something like the following:

Specify the specific log file in client-local.cfg on the hobbit server:

[win32] log:"d:\Log directory with spaces in name\log.txt":10240

Configure hobbit-clients.cfg so that the occurrence of the word "error" causes the server's status to go red:

HOST=winservername LOG "d:\Log directory with spaces in name\log.txt" %error color=red

Is this the correct way of doing this? I guess not because it doesn't appear to be evaluating that log file. I've had a look at the logs but see nothing to help.

Will appreciate advice on this.

Thanks.

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