[Nagiosplug-help] Re: syslog

[James Turnbull]

> check_log queries log files for patterns.  If you wanted to monitor a 
> whole series of logs you could consider using volatile services 
> (http://nagios.sourceforge.net/docs/2_0/volatileservices.html).
>
Sorry - another option to look at is the check_log2.pl plugin contained 
in the contrib directory of the plugins source package.  It's a more 
powerful version of check_log with regular expression checking.

Regards

James Turnbull

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