Testing of alerts

[fasanchez]

I have several alerts setup in my configuration. But I want a method to test and ensure that when a message shows up in syslog it does alert. Not sure if NLS has the capability.

[mcapra]

You could manually ship a message using netcat.

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[root@ahri ~]$ sudo yum whatprovides nc
Loaded plugins: fastestmirror, langpacks
Loading mirror speeds from cached hostfile
 * base: mirror.compevo.com
 * epel: mirrors.liquidweb.com
 * extras: repos.forethought.net
 * updates: mirrors.rit.edu
2:nmap-ncat-6.40-13.el7.x86_64 : Nmap's Netcat replacement
Repo        : base
Matched from:
Provides    : nc

Here are some examples of inserting "dummy" messages directly to Nagios Log Server:
https://support.nagios.com/forum/viewto ... at#p198855

Else, if the remote system that is shipping logs has logger available, you could use that to test.

[cdienger]

Thanks for the assist, @mcapra!