topic Re: monitoring tool in Operating System - HP-UX

monitoring tool

moonchild — Wed, 29 Mar 2006 22:04:39 GMT

Hi,

is there a way to configure syslogd to email entries out ? or a tool that does that ?

Thank you in advance

Re: monitoring tool

Rajeev Shukla — Wed, 29 Mar 2006 22:14:27 GMT

Not that i am aware of. Never came accross.
Instead what i do is write a small house keeping script and run it through cron.
What is does is, it rotates the syslog file.
Copy the current syslog file to another name with date, zip and trim the current syslog file to 0. you could add something similar in the script and mail the last days entries to yourself.

Re: monitoring tool

Patrice Le Guyader — Thu, 30 Mar 2006 00:18:38 GMT

Hi,

Look at this tool :
http://caspian.dotconf.net/menu/Software/LogDog/

LogDog monitors messages passing through syslogd and takes actions based on key words and phrases (which can be regular expressions). It has a configuration file which allows you to specify a list of key words or phrases to alert on and a list of commands that can be run when those words are encountered.

Hope this helps
Kenavo
Pat

Re: monitoring tool

moonchild — Thu, 30 Mar 2006 22:36:19 GMT

thanks Pat, i will look into it.

have you ever used logdog on hpux systems?

Re: monitoring tool

moonchild — Thu, 30 Mar 2006 23:17:41 GMT

FYI:

I also found syslog-ng but i don't know if we can email out:

http://hpux.cs.utah.edu/hppd/hpux/Sysadmin/libol-0.3.16/

Re: monitoring tool

Patrice Le Guyader — Fri, 31 Mar 2006 02:29:04 GMT

Hi,

I've never used it, I've planned to do it . It's in perl so with some adaptation it should be ok. I've take a quick look to it and you must get from the author site the sendEmail script too or modify logdog to use sendmail directly.

Hope this help
Kenavo
Pat