topic Re: syslog sanner in Operating System - HP-UX

syslog sanner

Donny Jekels — Mon, 28 Apr 2003 21:33:04 GMT

anyone know of a syslog scanner, floating around. looking for a tool/script perl || ksh to scan the syslog constantly looking for errors.

2 choices - build my own or get a working copy and build from there.

Re: syslog sanner

Andrew Cowan — Tue, 29 Apr 2003 05:49:23 GMT

Hi,

This is probably what you are looking for: http://swatch.sourceforge.net/

Good Luck

Re: syslog sanner

Paula J Frazer-Campbell — Tue, 29 Apr 2003 08:27:21 GMT

Hi

It is best to write your own so that you are monitoring exactly what you want.

Check here :-

http://forums.itrc.hp.com/cm/QuestionAnswer/1,,0x026250011d20d6118ff40090279cd0f9,00.html

Paula

Re: syslog sanner

Michael Steele_2 — Tue, 29 Apr 2003 10:58:24 GMT

One of the first scripts every SA learns to right.

I settled on a nightly cron and email that was basically a 'grep' for day and 'vmunix'. (* Complaints are always listed in syslog.log starting with 'vmunix'. *)

The above thread has some invaluable scripts attached.