Hi THWACK,
I would like to understand if log scraping files at a network location,(e.g: \\servername\directory\logfiles.txt) using regex or something similar for keywords/patterns, is possible?
I have seen the community made PowerShell and Perl SAM Application Templates, and where they appear to emulate a version of this, it does not do this completely. But, please do correct me if I am wrong, I am looking to receive alternate information and advice.
Some years ago I administered a product called Micro Focus Operations Manager i.
This product allowed you to remotely and continuously monitor contents of text files at a network location/on the syslog server, and if patterns were matched, then it would create an alert.
It would continuously check the new files and alert as new files contained the particular strings of text you configure it to look for.
The concept seems simple yet powerful and highly beneficial, I almost feel as though I may be missing something obvious for this not be a current option.
From SolarWinds perspective, to similarly achieve this:
- You need to configure SolarWinds to 'be' a syslog and point network devices to SolarWinds
- Then create rules to achieve the log scraping/pattern matching
As this may be the only way to do syslog monitoring from SolarWinds perspective, this may be the path forward if in fact the only one - the negative side is that it introduces further disparity as we already have a syslog.
Or...
- Do away with 'syslog' all together and configure your network devices to send SNMP traps to SolarWinds and use Traps instead
- And configure rules to do XYZ when XYZ trap is received with XYZ text/data
Looking to be corrected, and for as much further information as you can give me, but this is what I have identified so far with SolarWinds.
It would be hugely beneficial to this environment to be able to monitor text files at the network location as we currently have an operating syslog logging errors.
Thanks for your time.
--t.m-k
