[kw-pm] Scanning Linux logfiles for dropouts

[Daniel R. Allen]

Heh.  Free time, what's that?  Sorry, haven't gotten to it yet.

Did anybody else on the list take a look?

(speaking personally, it's often like pulling teeth to get a code
review- even if you ask for one- I believe there's a perl code review
mailing list- if nobody knows it off-hand, I'll look it up...)

-Daniel

On Mon, 7 Jun 2004 rprice at freeshell.org wrote:

> Hi Daniel,
>
> Did you ever get a chance to look at the program?
>
> Rick
>
> On Thu, 3 Jun 2004, Daniel R. Allen wrote:
>
> > Yes please... I'm curious.  Sounds like 'heartbeat' for logfiles...
> >
> > On Wed, 2 Jun 2004 rprice at freeshell.org wrote:
> >
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > I just finished a perl program which will detect the dropout of a pattern
> > > in a syslog type file.
> > >
> > >
> > > Basically you specify the logfile, program, repeat period and pattern, and
> > > if the pattern fails to show up on time, it syslogs the failure.
> > >
> > > I use logcheck on Debian, so I wouldn't want it to email me the info, but
> > > if someone wanted to add that feature, it would hardly be difficult.
> > >
> > >
> > > I just finished it tonight, so I should let it run for good couple of days
> > > to make sure it's working before I inflict it on anyone else, but I'd be
> > > happy to share it with anyone who wanted it.
> > >
> > >
> > > My usage is to ensure that various BoxBackup clients that backup to my
> > > machine, in fact do so within a reasonable time period.
> > >
> > > But it would be useful to check on any periodic thing that you would like
> > > to watch. For instance, did my backup actually run each night?, if it
> > > failed, you'd know about it, but what if it failed to run at all, you
> > > wouldn't get a syslog entry for that...
> > >
> > > Have Fun
> > > Rick
> > >
> > >
> > > On Sat, 29 May 2004, Andrew Kohlsmith wrote:
> > >
> > > > > What I want is to be able to detect that one of the clients has not called
> > > > > in during some relevant time period.
> > > >
> > > > > Any ideas?
> > > >
> > > > grep out the entries you want and use the date modules to calculate deltas
> > > > between entries... sound an alarm if the delta is greater than some preset...
> > > >
> > > > -A.
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