Re: [Nagios-users] check_log and check_logfiles

2006-06-30 Thread jorgecab
Thanks for your reply Gerhard, yes I meant that check_logfiles. You see I have an application running on a linux server and I want to search the logs for a specific error message but I only want it to raise an alarm (status change to critical) if in a single check it finds more than five of that ty

[Nagios-users] check_log and check_logfiles

2006-06-30 Thread jorgecab
Hi, I want to monitor a certain pattern in a log file so I've been testing check_logfiles and check_log but what I want it to do is that when the pattern repeats itself 5 times (for example) then give an alert not just with one time, I can't figure out how to do this with nagios plugins. Has anyone