Re: Action on file content tests

[Martin Pala]

Hi,

the full syntax is:

  IF [NOT] MATCH {regex|path} [[<X>] <Y> CYCLES] THEN action

The [[<X>] <Y> CYCLES] part allows to specify the occurence rate needed 
to process the action (i.e. for example if the test matches 7 times in 
10 consecutive cycles then perform the restart).

Martin



Florian Munz wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I am watching my httpd_error log file for a particular string with the
> 'if match regex' statement. The problem is that this string doesn't
> appear only once if it appears. So I get usually 10 alerts in the first
> cycle and more than 100 alerts in the cycles after that.
>
> What I want to do is restart the apache server if that strings appears
> but after some tests with the EXEC action and RESTART action (letting
> the apache monitor depend on the file content test) it seems for every
> alert it trys to restart the server which is definitely not good.
>
> What can I do that the file content test behaves more like a connection
> test? So that it alerts once on failure (the specific regex is matched)
> and then again if the string stops appearing in the logfile?
>
>
> thanks,
> Florian
>
>
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