Hi, I don't have any pointers but this idea might help
If you could enable passwordless ssh login to all machines, thru ssh, grep your log files with a pattern and redirect output to a file in those machines, scp that output file into a master node and check if file empty, good else not alert thru mail / console. Good Luck ----- Original Message ----- From: Trevor Warren <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: ILUG-BOM <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: [ILUG-BOM] online monitoring of log files on gnu-linux, aix and hp-ux Date: Wed, 3 Nov 2004 19:32:37 -0800 (PST) > > > Morning Guys/Gals, > > Me has an urgent need of advice from your end. > Hoping for some pointers. > > For one of TCS's client we have configured Nagios > and a host of other GPL'ed applns top aid him in > Network Monitoring as part of a very large project. > This last problem has me stumped. > > In my network consisting of purely > AIX/Gnu-Linux/HP-UX i have to provide a single console > for monitoring all logs and trigger an alert/alarm as > soon as a particular message comes up in the logs. > These logs will be both system and application logs > and hence the messages to be tracked has to be > customisable. > > Lemme know if someone has had this problem solved > before or has any inkling of what appln we can make > use of. > > Trevor > > > > ===== > |------|____________________________________|------| > ( >- / Scaling FreeSoftware & OpenSource \ -< ) > /~\ / In the Enterprise \ /~\ > | \) \ | www.fsf.org | www.opensource.org | / (/ | > |_|_ \____________________________________/ _|_| > > > > __________________________________ > Do you Yahoo!? > Check out the new Yahoo! Front Page. > www.yahoo.com > > > > -- > http://mm.ilug-bom.org.in/mailman/listinfo/linuxers > -- ______________________________________________ Check out the latest SMS services @ http://www.linuxmail.org This allows you to send and receive SMS through your mailbox. Powered by Outblaze -- http://mm.ilug-bom.org.in/mailman/listinfo/linuxers
