I did find a solution that watches a log file (/var/log/messages) for the
expression 'zmc_m2' and when it finds it it triggers a script called
sendzmcemail.sh.
the command that worked for me (in the monit control file) was:
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check file messages with path /var/log/messages
if match "zmc_m2" then exec "/root/sendzmcemail.sh"
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it took a bit of debugging to get it to work but I'm impressed with monit
now that it does work.
On Tue, Apr 8, 2014 at 11:39 AM, Hearns, John <[email protected]>wrote:
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> as a newbie to monit I'm having difficulty understanding how I get monit
> to watch for a particular text string (pattern?) in a logfile and then run
> a script when it finds it.
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> Anthony,
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> I would be interested to hear what the solution you find for this one is.
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> Specifically, I would like to monitor for the OOM killer coming into
> action on a system.
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> My first thought would be to use a log watcher program rather than monit,
> the classical Logwatch being the obvious one.
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