[Novalug] Redhat system alert syntax

Ken Kauffman kkauffman@headfog.com
Thu Jan 8 16:21:55 EST 2009


Understood.  We have to customize the parser to detect alerts we want
and which to discard.  This not based on severity, but based on the
alert content itself.

Ken

On 2009-01-08, Shawn Wells <swells@redhat.com> wrote:
> Ken Kauffman wrote:
>> Anyone know where I can get a comprehensive list of system alerts that can
>> be generated by redhat v4 and v5 (generally located in syslog)?
>>
>> To make a long story short, I'm working om a project where stock redhat is
>> inside a 'black box' solution and the client will not certify the
>> monitoring agent.  So I'm building a different integration that I need
>> this syntax.
>>
>> Any help would be appreciated.
>>
>> Ken
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> Depends what you mean by system alerts.
>
> Generally monitoring agents rely on config settings (think Nagios
> alerts).  Those are all items that you need to configure.
>
> You could have syslog/rsyslog send the messages to your application,
> where you parse them out...  aka
>
> echo "*.*               /bin/yourapp" >> /etc/rsyslog.conf
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