Windows log file monitoring

[bsivavani]

Hi Support,

We have a requirement to monitor windows log file(Text file). I have tried to implement check_logfiles.exe in windows, but PAR module is not installing because of some proxy settings.

Can you please suggest best approach to achieve this functionality.

[hsmith]

Have you looked in to Nagios Log Server? You can set up NXLog to send the logs to Nagios Log Server. It's a great product.

[bsivavani]

Yes. I have looked at given link, but customer is looking for plugin to achieve the functionality. Please let us know if there is any available plugin for this.

[scottwilkerson]

The best one for this I know of is https://exchange.nagios.org/directory/P ... es/details

It comes in both a Windows and Linux variety

[bsivavani]

Thanks for the update.

I am trying to do windows log file monitoring using NRPE with below command, but I am facing below error while running
[root@XXXX ~]# /usr/local/nagios/libexec/check_nrpe -H YYYY -c check_logfile -a file='C:\test.log' "warn=column1 LIKE 'error'"
Failed to open file: C:\test.log
[root@XXXX ~]#

Please find attached nsclient.ini file and let us know how to proceed with this kind of issue.

[rkennedy]

It might be a permission issue of the file test.log -- can you run this on the windows machine, and post back the result?

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icacls C:\test.log

Also, can you take a look at the nsclient log file, and see if there is anything related to you running that check?

[bsivavani]

Below is output

C:\Program Files (x86)\WinZip>icacls C:\test.log
C:\test.log: The system cannot find the file specified.
Successfully processed 0 files; Failed processing 1 files
C:\Program Files (x86)\WinZip>

[tmcdonald]

I see you have opened up an email ticket for this, so we will continue communication via email. I will be closing this thread now.