Has anyone successfully integrated a different log monitor into xymon? The internal msgs monitor works fine for /var/log/messages or any other system log where a similar notification is used for each system (in our case the systems group).
But I have a need to monitor multiple Apache logs on various systems where a different user group would be notified if any yellow or red alerts were created. I don't see a way to do that and have /var/log/messages alerts going somewhere else for the same system.
Running 4.3.18 on RHEL 6.6
swatch maybe? Everything I'm finding is either too simplistic or way overkill for what I need. The lighter the footprint the better.
Thanks.
Larry D. Bonham
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Larry Bonham wrote:
Has anyone successfully integrated a different log monitor into xymon?
The internal msgs monitor works fine for /var/log/messages or any other system log where a similar notification is used for each system (in our case the systems group).But I have a need to monitor multiple Apache logs on various systems where a different user group would be notified if any yellow or red alerts were created. I don't see a way to do that and have /var/log/messages alerts going somewhere else for the same system.
Running 4.3.18 on RHEL 6.6
swatch maybe? Everything I'm finding is either too simplistic or way overkill for what I need. The lighter the footprint the better.
Thanks.
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Larry D. Bonham
Hi, like you, we found the internal msgs tool is perfectly adequate in terms of functionality, but does not lend itself well to notifying different groups unless you are relying on email notification, in which case you can define a GROUP rule in alert.cfg/analysis.cfg. In our place, we do not use email, instead, we have a 24x7 operations team viewing the critical page, managing the incidents in real time, so we needed different column names to be able to identify the requirements in critical.cfg. I wrote this simple script to direct a given log analysis to a given column name, it may work for you :-
https://wiki.xymonton.org/doku.php/monitors:msgs
When we have need for more sophisticated log monitoring and we use SEC (http://simple-evcorr.sourceforge.net/) which is extremely powerful, we employ just a fraction of its potential. We have a perl module that goes with SEC so that SEC delivers status messages to Xymon in exactly the same way as the internal msgs tool.
Andy
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