Comments on: Logfile Check on Linux

By: PeterDK

PeterDK — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 09:10:57 +0000

I tested both ways today, but still no good result.
- Re-writing the file with a new error line: I’m still waiting for the alert (already 15 minutes)
- Adding error lines: result like I mentioned before.

Monitoring of a Linux log file is not reliable for the moment.

By: Anders Bengtsson

Anders Bengtsson — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 19:00:47 +0000

That I did not notice, but I notice that there is different ways to insert text in a logfile on the Linux side. One way re-writes the file and the other way adds text. I notice that the result was the same, but Ops Mgr responds different to the two ways.

By: PeterDK

PeterDK — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 15:52:50 +0000

Hi,

did you notice that the UNIX/Linux logfile monitoring only checks every 5 minutes and loses everything between?
I added a crontab entry that echos an error into the monitored logfile.
The 1st entry was detected and after 5 minutes the 6th entry, the 4 in between were not.

Or did I configure it wrong?

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