Re: [Nagios-users] Plugin for dmesg/kernel messages

2013-07-16 Thread Alex
Guys, >> > Those messages didn't show up in /var/log/messages ? That's normally >> > where I catch that stuff with a log monitor. >> >> No, they didn't show up in syslog, but perhaps they should have. >> >> What application are you using to monitor syslog log messages such as > > SEC[1] works rea

Re: [Nagios-users] Plugin for dmesg/kernel messages

2013-07-16 Thread Tom Throckmorton
On Tue, Jul 16, 2013 at 12:13 AM, Alex wrote: > > Those messages didn't show up in /var/log/messages ? That's normally > where I catch that stuff with a log monitor. > > No, they didn't show up in syslog, but perhaps they should have. > > What application are you using to monitor syslog log mess

Re: [Nagios-users] Plugin for dmesg/kernel messages

2013-07-16 Thread Daniel Wittenberg
Personally I always use check_logfiles http://labs.consol.de/lang/en/nagios/check_logfiles/ Dan On Jul 15, 2013, at 11:13 PM, Alex wrote: >> Those messages didn't show up in /var/log/messages ? That's normally where >> I catch that stuff with a log monitor. > > No, they didn't show up in s

Re: [Nagios-users] Plugin for dmesg/kernel messages

2013-07-15 Thread Alex
> Those messages didn't show up in /var/log/messages ? That's normally where I > catch that stuff with a log monitor. No, they didn't show up in syslog, but perhaps they should have. What application are you using to monitor syslog log messages such as these? Thanks, Alex

Re: [Nagios-users] Plugin for dmesg/kernel messages

2013-07-15 Thread Daniel Wittenberg
Those messages didn't show up in /var/log/messages ? That's normally where I catch that stuff with a log monitor. Dan On Jul 15, 2013, at 3:08 PM, Alex wrote: > Hi, > > I've located a few plugins that I could modify, but does someone know > of a plugin that can be used to monitor dmesg for

Re: [Nagios-users] Plugin for dmesg/kernel messages

2013-07-15 Thread William Leibzon
Just use one of the log checking plugins. Nagios is not super great for issues that are reported one-time, like log messages or SNMP traps. We really need to discuss how to better handle this in general better. Many of course just use other type of monitoring utilities like splunk for that in addi

[Nagios-users] Plugin for dmesg/kernel messages

2013-07-15 Thread Alex
Hi, I've located a few plugins that I could modify, but does someone know of a plugin that can be used to monitor dmesg for general kernel issues? I noticed a ext4 filesystem issue on one of the servers, and realized I should be monitoring for kernel crashes, oops, or other failures. I realize t