Re: newbie: getting monit to watch for a pattern in logfile

[Anthony Griffiths]

I did find a solution that watches a log file (/var/log/messages) for the _expression_ 'zmc_m2' and when it finds it it triggers a script called sendzmcemail.sh.

the command that worked for me (in the monit control file) was:

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check file messages with path /var/log/messages

     if match "zmc_m2" then exec "/root/sendzmcemail.sh"

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it took a bit of debugging to get it to work but I'm impressed with monit now that it does work.

On Tue, Apr 8, 2014 at 11:39 AM, Hearns, John <address@hidden> wrote:

 

as a newbie to monit I'm having difficulty understanding how I get monit to watch for a particular text string (pattern?) in a logfile and then run a script when it finds it.

 

Anthony,

I would be interested to hear what the solution you find for this one is.

 

Specifically, I would like to monitor for the OOM killer coming into action on a system.

 

My first thought would be to use a log watcher program rather than monit, the classical Logwatch being the obvious one.

 

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