Re: check file content without alert if file does not exist

[Ben Soot]

Hi Martin,

Thanks for that. I do not have the "any" option in mmonit 3.1.2, however i found out using groups 
how to not get alerted by existence "errors".

Its still not optimal. The issue is that on the mmonit dashboard it looks like services failed - 
host status is organge - although all services are ok, just some that monitor error log files have 
status "Does not exist" - which is fine...

Any ideas?

Thanks Ben

On 05.01.2015 19:35, Martin Pala wrote:
> Hi Ben,
>
> you can filter out the "existence" event in M/Monit (all other events will be 
> delivered):
>
>
>
> Regards,
> Martin
>
>
>
> > On 24 Dec 2014, at 15:29, Ben Soot <address@hidden <mailto:address@hidden>> 
> > wrote:
> >
> > Hi
> >
> > I am using monit 5.4 - cannot upgrade b/c shared c compiler lib of debian 
> > wheezy (would have to
> > upgrade c compiler which i rather would not do b/c of side effects)
> >
> > My issue:
> > I am checking several error log files and alert if certain patterns occur 
> > within (that indicate
> > serious errors i need to take action on).
> > I however do not want to be alerted when the file does not exist (i.e. there 
> > are no errors at all)
> >
> > How do i do that?
> >
> > I tried:
> >
> >
> > check file foo-err.log  with path /foo-err.log
> >   if match
> >        "^.*ACTION_REQUIRED.*$" then alert
> >    if does not exist for 64 cycles then exec "/bin/true"
> >
> > (the last clause is to override the default action which is restart and also 
> > alerts me.)
> >
> >
> > I am customer of mmonit, so i configure alert settings there.
> >
> > So i configured to be alerted by all events except execution. However I still 
> > get alerted when the
> > file does not exist.
> >
> > Note also: I do not want to create an alert rule in mmonit for every service as 
> > i am monitoring a
> > lot of such error log files.
> >
> > Any ideas?
> >
> > Many thxs and merry x-mas!
> >
> > Ben
> >
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