Re: Selecting multi-line console messages from a log file

2009-06-24 Thread Neale Ferguson
Tell us what your trying to filter and I bet you¹ll get several versions of an action routine from the list watchers that you can plug into PROP and it will create/append to a log on the fly. On 6/24/09 12:01 AM, Fred Schmidt fred.schm...@nt.gov.au wrote: Neale Ferguson said... Would it be

Re: Selecting multi-line console messages from a log file

2009-06-24 Thread Fred Schmidt
Neale Ferguson said... Tell us what your trying to filter and I bet you¹ll get several versions of an action routine from the list watchers that you can plug into PROP and it will create/append to a log on the fly. OK, here goes (userid's and IP addresses changed to protect the innocent)

Re: Selecting multi-line console messages from a log file

2009-06-24 Thread Neale Ferguson
Are you really after all the security violations? If so, an accounting record is cut for every violation. The log messages (by default) will only print after 3 or more attempts. Similarly, if you are after all logon/logoff/disconnect/reconnect records an accounting record is cut for these also. On

Re: Selecting multi-line console messages from a log file

2009-06-24 Thread Fred Schmidt
Neale Ferguson on Wed, 24 Jun 2009 17:32:14 -0700 wrote * Are you really after all the security violations? If so, an * accounting record is cut for every violation. The log messages * (by default) will only print after 3 or more attempts. * Similarly, if you are after

Selecting multi-line console messages from a log file

2009-06-23 Thread Fred Schmidt
Is there a way of selecting all lines for a multi-line console log message, rather than just the first? We post-process the operator's console log files to look for Action messages, writing them to a separate file. I use an XEDIT macro to do this. However, we only get the first line of such

Re: Selecting multi-line console messages from a log file

2009-06-23 Thread Fred Schmidt
Hi Mike, Yes, sorry. I should have given more details on the environment. The console logs are from OPERATOR, processed by PROP to send them to the Logical Operator, which uses the Performance Toolkit interface for console management. The Performance Toolkit creates the log files that I then

Re: Selecting multi-line console messages from a log file

2009-06-23 Thread Neale Ferguson
Would it be easier to create action routines for PROP so it will process the messages as they come in rather than post-processing them when the format may have changed? Neale