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How to read log files

FormerMember over 17 years ago

We have SolarWind monitoring tool which we are using to monitor the network services and servers. We want to know if it is possible to read through the log files and send alerts using the SolarWind tool. We have different applications and some of the applications logs in the application specific errors into the log files on that server folders. Is it possible to read through the log files at scheduled time and send alerts?

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lag over 9 years ago in reply to FormerMember +1

This is possible using a custom script monitor. I'm a fan of using powershell to grab this with a Regex match. Something like Get-Content, match a string, and then do some work with it to provide feedback…

0 aLTeReGo over 17 years ago

What type of log files are you talking about? Do you mean the Windows EventViewer logs?
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0 FormerMember over 17 years ago in reply to aLTeReGo

quote:Originally posted by aLTeReGo

What type of log files are you talking about? Do you mean the Windows EventViewer logs?

These log files are just text files. Not the event viewer files. These servers will create error files for each process. For ex: it creates adminnotify.log file with the following text:

NotifyHndlrEvt HndlrErrors 1 0 2007-04-05 09:33:56 SBL-ADM-09217: Error occurred in invoking the notification handler in dll [ssemailntfy] for doing notification configured in named subsystem [AdminEmailAlert] for component [TxnRoute]

GenericLog GenericError 1 0 2007-04-05 10:34:00 Message with subject "Notification message from enterprise [ENT], Siebel, and component alias: [TxnRoute]" could not be sent to CHANGE_ME since no sender specified and neither "Default From Address" or "Default Administrator Address" were specified for the SMTPSubsystem

GenericLog GenericError 1 0 2

NotifyHndlrEvt HndlrErrors 1 0 2007-04-05 10:34:00 From address not specified and no default found

NotifyHndlrEvt HndlrErrors 1 0 2007-04-05 10:34:00 SBL-ADM-09217: Error occurred in invoking the notification handler in dll [ssemailntfy] for doing notification configured in named subsystem [AdminEmailAlert] for component [TxnRoute]

From above log file, I want monitoring tool to send me an alert whenever it finds the text "From address not specified" in the log file.
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0 mapoitras over 10 years ago in reply to FormerMember

I would like to do the same thing? Is this possible?
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0 lag over 9 years ago in reply to FormerMember

This is possible using a custom script monitor. I'm a fan of using powershell to grab this with a Regex match. Something like Get-Content, match a string, and then do some work with it to provide feedback to SAM. You'll want to have at a minimum a Statistic and message, and you can use Exit codes as well.
I believe exit codes for SAM are:
0 up, 1 down, 2 warning, 3 critical, any other value unknown
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