I would recommend a format like: <full timestamp> host=servername script=ID result=(Pass|Fail)
This makes parsing the result with a log analyzer a lot easier in my experience. (Splunk for example would automatically extract all of those tagged items into named fields, so you could do searches/reports on those fields without having to do any extra work to extract them manually) -David On Wed, Jul 9, 2014 at 12:15 PM, leam hall <[email protected]> wrote: > I could use some feedback on a thought process. > > Situation: Lots machines (3-4 digit count), lots of scripts on each > machine (100-500). The scripts are identified by a set alphanumeric scheme > and the scripts will either pass, fail, or fix the issue the script refers > to. > > Planned output is one file per machine in the following format: > > servername 2017-07-09 scriptID Pass > > The idea is that the relevant outputs can be collated into one larger file > for searching, or input into a database. > > What are your thoughts on this? Ideally others will use this so I'm trying > to think outside my own habits/needs. Feel free to bounce ideas around, you > probably have ideas I haven't even begun to ponder. > > Leam > > > -- > Mind on a Mission <http://leamhall.blogspot.com/> > > _______________________________________________ > Discuss mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/discuss > This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators > http://lopsa.org/ > >
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