BEST PLUGIN TO MONITOR LOG FILE

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NAGOWNER92
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BEST PLUGIN TO MONITOR LOG FILE

Post by NAGOWNER92 »

Good morning guys,

I would like to monitor a string inside a log file and send an alarm when it appears? Can someone advise me an useful plugin to use?

Thanks in advance
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Re: BEST PLUGIN TO MONITOR LOG FILE

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Have you looked at the check_log plugin?
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Re: BEST PLUGIN TO MONITOR LOG FILE

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Yep, I'd definitely take a look at these ones first:

http://exchange.nagios.org/directory/Pl ... es/details
http://exchange.nagios.org/directory/Pl ... pl/details

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