Re: general log monitor

[Mark Goodwin <markgw@xxxxxxx>]

On Fri, 2 Dec 2005, Jan-Frode Myklebust wrote:

> I'm looking at implementing PCP at a new site, and am looking for some
> way of monitoring general logfiles for activity.  Has anybody made a more
> general purpose/modifiable log monitor ? One counting lines matching a
> specified word maybe ?

You can probably use the 'logtail' PMDA for this. Basically you
configure it with a series of regex and log files to monitor,
and it exports a counter of matching entries in the log.

Look in /var/lib/pcp/pmdas/logtail

Cheers
-- Mark