If you build a monitor to monitor a logfile, Operations Manager will remember which line it was reading last. Operations Manager will only look for new keyword below that line, it will not read the whole file again. I did a lot of tests with logfile monitoring, read more about them here. If you need to get Operations Manager to read the whole logfile each time, you can use a scrip like this:

 
Const ForReading = 1
Set oAPI = CreateObject(“MOM.ScriptAPI”)
Set oBag = oAPI.CreatePropertyBag()

Set objFSO = CreateObject(“Scripting.FileSystemObject”)
Set objTextFile = objFSO.OpenTextFile _
(“c:\temp\file.txt”, ForReading)

Do Until objTextFile.AtEndOfStream
strText = objTextFile.ReadLine

varWarPos = Instr(strText, “Warning”)
If varWarPos > 0 Then
varStatus = “Warning”
varLine = strText
End If

varCriPos = Instr(strText, “Critical”)
If varCriPos > 0 Then
Call oBag.AddValue(“Line”, strText)
Call oBag.AddValue(“Status”,”critical”)
Call oAPI.Return(oBag)
Wscript.Quit(0)
End If

Loop
objTextFile.Close

If varStatus = “Warning” Then
Call oBag.AddValue(“Line”, varLine)
Call oBag.AddValue(“Status”,”warning”)
Call oAPI.Return(oBag)
Wscript.Quit(0)
Else
Call oBag.AddValue(“Status”,”ok”)
Call oAPI.Return(oBag)
End If

This script will read the file (c:\temp\file.txt) line by line. The script is looking for two keywords in the logfile, “Warning” and “Critical”. If there is a “Critical” in a line the script will send back a bag with status=Critical and the script will stop. If there is a “Warning” in the line the script will continue, as there might be a “critical” somewhere too. If there was only “Warning” the script will send back status=Warning. If there was no “Warning” or “Critical” the script will send back status=ok.

If there is a “Warning” or “Critical” the script will also put that line into a bag, and send it back to Operations Manager. You will see this line in the alert description. To use this script, you can configure a monitor like this:

• Create a new monitor of type Scripting/Generic/Timed Script Three State Monitor. Input a suitable name and target. More about targeting here.
• Schedule
  • Configure your script to run every X minute. The script will rad the whole logfile each time
• Script
  • Filename and Timeout, for example CheckFile.vbs and 2 minutes
  • Paste the script in the script field
• Unhealthy expression
  • Property[@Name=’Status’]
  • Equals
  • Warning
• Degraded expression
  • Property[@Name=’Status’]
  • Equals
  • Critical
• Healthy expression
  • Property[@Name=’Status’]
  • Equals
  • ok
• Alerting
  • Check Generate alerts for this monitor
  • Generate an alert when: The monitor is in a critical or warning health state
  • Check Automatically resolve the alert when the monitor returns to a healthy state
  • Alert name: Input an alert name
  • Alert Description
    • State $Data/Context/Property[@Name=’Status’]$
    • Line $Data/Context/Property[@Name=’Line’]$

Summary: This monitor, including the script, will read a logfile and generate alerts based on keywords. In will read the whole logfile each time and look for two different keywords.