Monitor rotating Log folder

[WillemDH]

Hello,

How do I configure NxLog to send rotating logs to NLS? See screenshot. Every day a logfile is created by NetBackup. The logfiles are named by date.

Grtz

Willem

[jolson]

Please see the attached nxlog manual. Section 6.2.4 may be of interest to you (im_file).

[gsl_ops_practice]

Hello,

Just reading the attached doc, I'd like a confirmation that all I need to do is run the setup script and give a wildcard in the filename? We have a few application logs that have the current date as the extension.

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bash setup-linux.sh -s logserver.name -p 5544 -f linuxfile.* -t FILE_TAG 

Thank you,
Alex

[jolson]

It looks like those logs reside on a Windows host, in which case you'll need to configure nxlog to set up the watching of your files as opposed to running the linux setup script. You should be able to follow the 'Windows File' setup guide and replace a specific file with a wildcard with no problems.

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    # Watch your own files
    <Input windowsfile>
        Module   im_file
        File     'C:\path\to\target\file\*'
        SavePos  TRUE
        Exec     $Message = $raw_event;
    </Input>