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Can we forward the syslog to Nagios

Posted: Tue Jun 10, 2014 8:50 am
by srikanth.kallu
Hi,

Can we forword syslog to nagios and setup alert for any severity.

I yes what is the procedure.

Thanks,
Srikanth.

Re: Can we forward the syslog to Nagios

Posted: Tue Jun 10, 2014 9:47 am
by slansing
Do you not have an rsyslog style server to centralize your logging? You would want to use a plugin to create some regex style matching for values:

http://exchange.nagios.org/index.php?op ... ord=syslog
http://exchange.nagios.org/index.php?op ... chword=log
http://assets.nagios.com/downloads/nagi ... ios_XI.pdf