Log pattern monitoring tools

[Henry Chua]

Hi guys,

I am just wondering, is there any good tools that can be used to monitor specified error code in a log from application, system etc. Thanks

Best regards
Henry

[John Guster]

most such tools are licensed. in HP world, OpenView ITO is the one able to minotoring certain pattern in a log file.

[Oviwan]

Hey

check man grep and man regexp, you can create your own specific pattern.

Regards

[Bill Hassell]

This is the simplest to write:

grep -i -e warn -e fail -e err -e /var/adm/syslog/syslog.log

Add any other error words or strings you might encounter. Many times, looking at a big logfile is a pain because there may be an error but it is more important to know how many times it has occurred. The attached script summarizes all the messages by counting how many times they occur.