Remote logs

jameswilson · Post by **jameswilson** » Thu Sep 01, 2005 8:22 am

Is it possible to upload relevant logs from a remote machine to a central server. If these files were uploaded and then certain checks ie email etc could be made on them. IE any failures then would be hihlighted on the central machine?

Hope this makes sense

James

bjoern_h · Post by **bjoern_h** » Sun Sep 04, 2005 9:58 pm

hi,
you can write a shell script which uploads you the log files to another machine or send them per Email. Shell scripts writing is very easy, you can find many tutorials by using google or another searchengine.
When the script is finish you can provide a cron job for call the script automatically!

greetings
björn

jameswilson · Post by **jameswilson** » Mon Sep 05, 2005 12:57 am

thankyou bjoern_h. Once i have the log ie the messages log sent to a central machine, is it possible to automatically query these logs for certain words and warn about that. The reason i ask is i have just setup nagios to check my 2 remote machines but all it checks is that th ehttp service is responding. I would prefer it if i could auto check for any errors on the remote system mainly regarding zm

Post by **cordel** » Mon Sep 05, 2005 6:12 am

I think there's a way to sent your logs using snmp and setup a log server wher you want them to go. I haven't yet had the chance to delv into it. Then you can use logwatch to alert to certain things.
If you find some good info let me know as I'd be interested.
Regards,
Cordel

jameswilson · Post by **jameswilson** » Mon Sep 05, 2005 6:33 am

ok Corey leave it with me. cheers for the point in the right direction. I think i have read somewhere the snmp is a security risk. what do you think?

James

Post by **cordel** » Mon Sep 05, 2005 7:46 pm

If it's only available on the lan and blocked from the wan on your firewall it should be okay.

jameswilson · Post by **jameswilson** » Mon Sep 05, 2005 7:52 pm

great... lol
What i was thinking was to set remote zm;s to do this ie on the wan. I am playing with nagios at the moment and looking at a way to use that to monitor them. As it checks http is up that seems to be the best i can do at the moment but i will keep looking

JAmes