syslog sanner

[Donny Jekels]

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.

[Andrew Cowan]

Hi,

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

Good Luck

[Paula J Frazer-Campbell]

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

[Michael Steele_2]

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.