I'm still learning about hyperic features and I have a question about log monitoring, which I've done very little of.
Previously, I've only set up log monitoring on a Windows platform to watch the Syslog for specific entries. It worked. Now I've been asked to setup monitoring on a redhat linux platform with PostFix mail service running on it. I created an SMTP platform service on it, looking at port 25 on localhost. It reports availability and response time (ms) by default and this is working fine. I was asked to watch /var/log/maillog for specific error messages. I can't find in the documentation how to do that.
http://pubs.vmware.com/vfabric51/index.jsp?topic=/com.vmware.vfabric.hyperic.4.6/Set_Up_Log_Tracking...
An authorized user can set the values of these configuration options:
- Enable/disable log tracking.
- Specify one or more files to track, as a comma-separated list. The Hyperic Agent must be able to read these files, so make sure permissions are set appropriately.
- Specify the highest log level to track:
- Specify substrings or expressions to use as include/exclude filter criteria. Enter a substring or a regular expression that a log message must contain or match in Log Pattern Match. For more information, see http://download.oracle.com/javase/1.4.2/docs/api/java/util/regex/Pattern.html.
The link for oracle doesn't exist anymore. I searched Google and these forums and can't find a "how to" on how to write an expression for the Log Pattern Match field. Has anyone done this? Do I watch this log at the platform level or the smtp platform service level? Is there more documentation somewhere?
Thanks.
