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Monitoring logs in remote server using nagios xi

Posted: Wed Oct 03, 2018 12:10 am
by mani3001
Hi ,

I am new to nagios and i need what is the best solution to monitor logs in the remote server with regular expression capability

Please share me the link or docs to read for achieving this

Thanks,
Mani

Re: Monitoring logs in remote server using nagios xi

Posted: Wed Oct 03, 2018 10:12 am
by scottwilkerson
The best solution for this is Nagios Log Server
https://www.nagios.com/products/nagios-log-server/

Re: Monitoring logs in remote server using nagios xi

Posted: Wed Oct 03, 2018 10:43 am
by skang
It does sound like you may want to check out Nagios Log Server since is a very powerful log monitoring tool and it can also be easily integrated with XI.

Within XI, however, you can monitor windows event logs and see the documentation below for details.
https://assets.nagios.com/downloads/nag ... gK5u_D_BwE

If you have other specific types of logs you are trying to monitor, I would check out the exchange for community developed plugins.
https://exchange.nagios.org/

But again, Nagios Log Server is designed specifically to monitor logs so I highly recommend trying it out.

Re: Monitoring logs in remote server using nagios xi

Posted: Wed Oct 03, 2018 11:16 pm
by tacolover101
i think a logging system is the best solution for this...but...if you want to use Nagios.

leverage an agent (check_nrpe, ssh, nsclient++, ncpa, wmi, etc.) - then use a plugin that will look at the log file, such as this for linux - https://nagios-plugins.org/doc/man/check_log.html

Re: Monitoring logs in remote server using nagios xi

Posted: Thu Oct 04, 2018 1:38 pm
by cdienger
Any further questions regarding this, @mani3001?