You rock!  Thank you so much Kay!!!  I really appreciate you taking the 
time to help a noob like me out.

On Friday, July 11, 2014 5:45:35 PM UTC-4, Kay Röpke wrote:
>
> Indeed! 
>
> I did not notice this when first reading your mail: 
> Message ID is not the content of the field "id" in your example. 
> Rather, it is the unique uuid graylog2 assigns to each message. 
> The "load message" button needs that uuid. Do a search for a message 
> you are interested in. Then click on the message in the result table, 
> and copy the uuid that shows up in the sidebar on the right (you can 
> click the envelope icon to copy the message id to the clipboard). Take 
> note of the index name, too. 
>
> Enter _those_ in the message id and index fields, then proceed to set 
> up your rules. Graylog2 will use the loaded message as an example to 
> match the new rules again. 
> Most likely your rules can consist of a single regex match on the 
> field message, or, which is a little bit more performant, individual 
> fields if you have extracted the values. 
> I would go with the regex match first to get everything working. In 
> your case those regexes should be fast since it's all just fixed 
> strings. 
>
> Best, 
> Kay 
>
> On Fri, Jul 11, 2014 at 9:36 PM, Bjørn Jensen <[email protected] 
> <javascript:>> wrote: 
> > Yes sir, that's exactly what I mean.  Thank you very much for the reply. 
> > Once I do one of those correctly I should easily be able to figure out 
> the 
> > rest.  I feel like there is an easy way to do this and I must be missing 
> > SOMETHING very basic.  If you can point me in the right direction it 
> would 
> > be hugely appreciated. 
> > 
> > 
> > On Thursday, July 10, 2014 11:50:25 AM UTC-4, lennart wrote: 
> >> 
> >> What do you mean with "I'd like to parse "Lab_Syslog" "Test Device" 
> >> and "Offline" to be able to send an alert"? Do you want to send an 
> >> alert every time a message that includes these three terms appears? 
> >> 
> >> On Thu, Jul 10, 2014 at 3:17 AM, Bjørn Jensen <[email protected]> 
> wrote: 
> >> > Hello all, 
> >> > I've tried searching for somebody with a similar issue but have yet 
> to 
> >> > find 
> >> > it.  Let me explain what I'm trying to do and then explain where I'm 
> >> > getting 
> >> > stuck and maybe somebody can help. 
> >> > 
> >> > I'm trying to receive very specific syslog events from hundreds of 
> >> > different 
> >> > SonicWALL routers that have been set to monitor a network device's 
> >> > up/down 
> >> > status and send a Syslog event when an even occurs.  An example input 
> >> > event/stream I receive on Graylog2 is: 
> >> > id=Lab_Syslog sn=0017C567CA30 time="2014-07-09 19:41:39" 
> >> > fw=73.179.217.255 
> >> > pri=1 c=0 m=706 msg="Network Monitor: Host 192.168.12.250 
> >> > (Policy:TestDevice) is offline" sess=None n=4 
> >> > 
> >> > Using the above as the example, I'd like to parse "Lab_Syslog" "Test 
> >> > Device" 
> >> > and "Offline" to be able to send an alert to a specific email 
> address, 
> >> > or 
> >> > group of email addresses, to alert them of the outage.  I managed to 
> do 
> >> > this 
> >> > on Splunk but would rather do it here.  I've tested and my email 
> >> > settings 
> >> > are working.  I'm getting stuck even setting up a basic rule. 
> >> > 
> >> > When I enter the message ID "Lab_Syslog" and the index "graylog2_0" 
> and 
> >> > click "Load Message" I receive an error stating: " Error Could not 
> load 
> >> > message. Make sure that ID and index are correct."  I figured that 
> once 
> >> > I 
> >> > got past that point I'd be able to see if I could somehow parse the 
> >> > information and create the alert I needed above. 
> >> > 
> >> > So, that being said I have two questions: 
> >> > 
> >> > 1.] Is what I'm trying to do even possible? 
> >> > 2.] If so, why am I unable to even create a rule? 
> >> > 
> >> > It's quite possible that I just flat out don't know what I'm doing, I 
> >> > accept 
> >> > that.  Any help would be kindly appreciated.  Thank you! 
> >> > 
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