Reading contents of a Log File

[Umair]

Hello,
Is it possible to perform intelligent search on the text in Log Files during monitoring them?

I have been using
vfs.file.regmatch[file,<regexp>]
to perform the searching.

But this search is not intelligent and returns the first line encountered(if matched) from the whole file.

I need to do two things :

1). Check if the String is found or not
2). Return some String instead of the 1 or 0.

[NOB]

Answer / suggestion for improvement

Hi,

IMHO, you discovered another weak point in ZABBIX.

You are right, this type of check just returns TRUE or FALSE,
depending whether the strings was found in the complete file
or not.
Your result corresponds to my tests of earlier (beta) versions 1.3.x

You should use the "log[file]" for that.
However, this gives other problems, as you mentioned in a later post.

I suggest implementing something like
"logmatch[file,regexp]" where regexp contains all patterns
of interest and returns the line containing exactly those patterns.

In this way you can build very interesting pattern matching rules
in ZABBIX (using the triggers).
We use one of the "big four" in event management in a way the
manufacturer never advertised but it saves a lot of load on CPU (server),
DB (server) and network.

I am not sure whether integrating logsurfer - which can do all of the above -
will work or is easy.

Regards,

Norbert.

[Antras]

Hello,
Is it possible to perform intelligent search on the text in Log Files during monitoring them?

I have been using
vfs.file.regmatch[file,<regexp>]
to perform the searching.

But this search is not intelligent and returns the first line encountered(if matched) from the whole file.

I need to do two things :

1). Check if the String is found or not
2). Return some String instead of the 1 or 0.

Did you found decision?