Let's back down to the physical on this. Is there any way to look at a
file on another machine without, a) having some sort of app running on
that remote host and displaying back to you, b) sharing the
file/filesystem to a local machine where an app can read it? At some
point, something on the remote host has to touch the file, either NFS,
SMB, or hyperic. Something has to give you those 'eyes'. SNMP is an app
running on the remote host that gives you those eyes.
The only workarounds beyond NFS, then, would be to set up a central log
server and have your multiple hosts and/or apps send the logs there, and
have hyperic on that log server (actually a very clean way to go if you
monitor a lot of hosts, and very secure).
Or, write an app that runs on the remote host that can monitor the log
file, then write a hyperic plugin that somehow queries that app and gives
you the information you want? Or ssh to the remote and
process/query/something? Either way I feel you will have to involve some
intermediate app between the logs and Hyperic.
> I really dont want to use NFS since there may be other files on different
> disks later that I might
> want to watch . Isnt there a way to look at (read files) on another
> computer that allows
> reading without using NFS . I know one can monitor using snmp devices that
> dont have clients. Now I just want to read a file and look for failures.
>
