Subject: monlogerrtrapd -- log file watcher to send mon traps To: mon@linux.kernel.org In the hope it may be useful to someone, here is a generic script I've written to watch log files and send mon traps when a pattern is matched. Dan Urist durist@loomissayles.com durist@world.std.com ========= Watch for patterns in logfiles and send Mon traps. This script daemonizes itself, so it doesn't need to be backgrounded when it is started. monlogerrtrapd -U user -P password -h monhost -g group -s service -p pattern_file [-x xpattern_file] [-t sleep] [-T throttle] logfile [logfile...] monlogerrtrapd -C -p pattern_file [-x xpattern_file] logfile [logfile...] -C # Check mode; reports lines we would have trapped on and exits -U user # Mon trap user -P password # Mon trap user's password -h monhost # Host that runs mon -g group # Mon hostgroup for this trap -s service # Mon service name for this trap -p pattern_file # File containing perl regexps for error patterns, # one per line -x xpattern_file # (optional) file containing list of patterns to exclude # which would otherwise match -t sleep # (optional) Number of seconds to sleep between file checks; # default is 30. -T throttle # (optional) Number of minutes to wait between sending traps # for the same error match and filename. If another match is # seen within "throttle" minutes, the counter is reset; e.g. # if throttle is 5 minutes and we get a match every 4 minutes, # only one trap will be sent. Use with caution! WARNING: Extraneous whitespace and empty lines will be interpreted as patterns in the pattern and xpattern files!