[Novalug] Redhat system alert syntax

[Jay Hart]

>From what I remember about Syslog, this could be thousands of alerts per
day...IIRC

Jay

> 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 at 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
>>> ----
>>> // sent via BlackBerry
>>> _______________________________________________
>>> Novalug mailing list
>>> Novalug at calypso.tux.org
>>> http://calypso.tux.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/novalug
>>>
>>
>> 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
>> _______________________________________________
>> Novalug mailing list
>> Novalug at calypso.tux.org
>> http://calypso.tux.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/novalug
>>
>
> --
> Sent from my mobile device
> _______________________________________________
> Novalug mailing list
> Novalug at calypso.tux.org
> http://calypso.tux.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/novalug
>