[Nagios-users] Remote logfile monitoring

2009-09-17 Thread Jelle Smet
Hi List, Are there any ways whatsoever to do remote logfile monitoring for *nix with following requirements?: * Use NRPE and no other client (with arguments allowed) as nrpe is our standard. * Use regex's to match * Regex's/matches should be defined on the Nagios server (so not on the remote

Re: [Nagios-users] Remote logfile monitoring

2009-09-17 Thread Assaf Flatto
You can start by looking here http://www.monitoringexchange.org/cgi-bin/page.cgi?g=Detailed%2F1752.html;d=1 but from the basic details you specified , the functionality you want may not be already written in one of the plugins and you might have to write it yourself. Assaf On Thursday 17

Re: [Nagios-users] Remote logfile monitoring

2009-09-17 Thread Kevin Keane
Jelle Smet wrote: Hi List, Are there any ways whatsoever to do remote logfile monitoring for *nix with following requirements?: * Use NRPE and no other client (with arguments allowed) as nrpe is our standard. Any plugin that works for Nagios directly should also work with NRPE. The

Re: [Nagios-users] Remote logfile monitoring

2009-09-17 Thread Jelle Smet
Any plugin that works for Nagios directly should also work with NRPE. The only potential difference is of course the processor and system architecture. NRPE refuses to process metachars | `' \ [ ] { } ; ! which makes sending over regex's as a parameter over nrpe virtually impossible. I