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Is there a way to log all files that are created on a W2K8 server?
I've got a W2K8 server with some IIS apps that are creating a lot of files. I would like to monitor what files are created and how big they are. Is there a tool I could use to log all files that are ...
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Tomcat logs web interface
I have several production machines running Java servlets on Tomcat infrastructure.
When I want to look at the logs, I have to remote access the machine with ssh, and manually grep the logs for ...
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Generic logging + mail alerts solution when monitoring services [duplicate]
We are running several daemons and services on Linux. We would like to be able to get an e-mail/SMS alert when a service goes down without being alerted too often while it's down.
Simple case: we ...
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Real-time monitoring script for apache with only specific fields listed
I am real-time monitoring my website log, but would like to create a script that shows only the following in nice pretty columns.
log being used: /var/log/httpd/access_log (default log file and ...
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mysql logging activity from specific user or ip
I have mysql server.
The server is accessed by my application, and by external auditor (person using mysql workbench).
The auditor has specific user and password and dedicated IP and it is granted ...
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Apache httpd server 'is it possible': Alert on specific condition in access/error log
I'm just wondering is it there some module which can detect certain event in access/error log and if it matches it, to send an email with information.
example:
I want to detect when someone makes ...
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What is the simplest way to monitor log files for (a) string/regex matches AND (b) lack of output?
On a single Linux server, there are often lots of independent (perhaps interlinked) services outputting numerous logs to files at known paths.
Sometimes bad stuff happens and is written about, to the ...
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Cross-referencing charts (e.g. munin) with log files
Is there a charting package like Munin (or an addon for it) that will let me click on a graph period and then see all the logs on that box for that period? e.g. if I see a huge spike in disk I/O 12 ...
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Monitoring E-Mail Alerts Scalably
Anyone know of a way to monitor e-mail alerts scalably?
For many of my on site services I have them e-mail me on success (and failure) of critical tasks. The reason I have it e-mail on success, is ...
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Reduce munin logging level
Munin is quite verbose, and logs a bunch of things into munin-graph.log, munin-html.log, munin-limits.log and munin-update.log at each run of munin-cron.
I already reduced munin-node logging level by ...
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Kernel Logging disabled?
uname -a
Linux host 2.6.32-279.9.1.el6.i686 #1 SMP Tue Sep 25 20:26:47 UTC 2012 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux
And start ups:
ls /etc/init.d/
abrt-ccpp certmonger dovecot irqbalance ...
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Monitoring AWS Systems Behind ElasticBeanStalk
So I'm getting a company set up in the Amazon Cloud -- creating IAAS protocol/solutions/standardized implementation, etc while also being the SysAdmin for individual systems, app environments, and ...
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Search for a log pattern continuously
I am preparing a log watch dog but my concern is tailing always would blow up in some point. Thus,
My concern is to monitor the log file always and if a pattern match occurs.
Issue some commands on ...
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Zabbix Log Monitoring - Duplicate alerts
I am configured Zabbix to monitor my Jboss Server logs for Erros and exclude some know errors.
This setup is working, Zabbix will send me alerts when there is a new "ERROR" entry in the log file, but ...
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Monitoring flow of information through WebSphere Process Server 7
We are currently building a system using WPS.
One of the requirements is that the business wants to be able to see all the calls that have gone through WPS for a given social security number.
One ...
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SiteScope + log file monitoring
I have SiteScope monitoring log files for specific text. When that text shows up, an alert is triggered and an email is sent out. However, the email is sent out twice and I cannot figure out why.
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log network connections before moving server?
We are upgrading an old database server but want to make sure we update code on all other servers connecting to it. I'm thinking of mirroring the network port and logging what IP addresses connect to ...
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how to write a script that only acts on new log entries
I feel like this should be a simple thing but I am having a hard time figuring it out.
I am trying to write a script that will monitor one of the apache log files and take some specific action. But ...
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Log monitoring and alert utility
Actually we use ManageEngine's Application Manager to monitor some client servers that host Oracle Databases and some JBoss applications. Unfortunately App Manager doesn't work so fast as i wish so i ...
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Does Nagios offer a “event logging” dashboard, if not, what should I use to monitor events?
I am using Nagios to monitor that a certain number of servers and processes stay online. This works well and I'm happy with it.
However, I would like a consolidated "event log" across the servers ...
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Nagios log check plugin that doesn't use diff
we are using check_log from the nagios-plugins to monitor logs, but the problem is that with big logfiles, even if we rotate logs hourly, the plugin causes significant spikes in memory and cpu usage.
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Monitoring Innodb Lock Monitoring output?
I've found plenty of tools that will monitor the output of SHOW PROCESSLIST and SHOW INNODB STATUS but haven't really found much that indicates it will log, digest and summarize (optionally enabled) ...
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Free Web Based Server Log Viewer/Monitor
I'm not much of a server guy, but do need to monitor logs for my web server. Preferabbly, PHP, Apache and MySQL error logs. Could you guys offer any advice for free web-based solutions for monitoring ...
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Is there a tool similar to pflogsumm (Postfix logs parser) for Dovecot?
For monitoring my Postfix install I'm using pflogsumm, which parses the Postfix's logs and generates a nice summary.
I tried to find a similar tool for Dovecot, but couldn't. Is there such a thing?
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Ssh log monitor
Are there any tools to monitor ssh logs at /var/log/secure and report activity?
I am looking for some tools that will proactively tell me about user actions and highlight malicious activity.
I don’t ...
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How to trigger alert when a log contains a number of seconds greater than threshold?
I have a log file where an application logs the time it takes to complete several operations related with other subsystems.
I want Nagios (or other) to be able to chart and monitor the times in that ...
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Getting per-ip traffic stats from PF
Is there a way to get per-ip traffic stats from PF on OpenBSD 4.9? pfctl can give me the total traffic (bytes) for a given label, and pfstats for a given interface, and pftop can give me a "live" view ...
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Measuring bandwidth per site
I need to measure the bandwidth of 4 specific sites. Is there a tool free available on the net that helps us achieve this?
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Get notification from supervisord when a job exits
Is there any way supervisord can automatically restart a failed/exited/terminated job and send me a notification email with a dump of the last x lines of log file?
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Monitoring and logging website traffic
I have website where i provide different services.When users log in i want to monitor all that they do and store them up in a log file of that particular user and send them an email weekly to the ...
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Smarter System Alerts
We have a pretty simple system setup, where I get text messages when there is a system problem. It's nothing fancy. I send an email to my phone number within my logging class for alert levels. It ...
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Best tools for “ssh tail -f” style log file monitoring and analysis
I'm looking for a tool to monitor custom PHP Error logs/Apache and possibly Java logs on remote development servers.
I'm not looking for a full production log system like Splunk, but something that's ...
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View content of memcached
Are there any tools to explore what is currently cached inside a memcached pool? Not some much graphs, but the actual key/values currently stored.
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Show most requested URL in apache
Is there any way to show the most requested URL from apache over a timeframe, e.g. the most requested URL over the past 2 hours.
Is this type of thing possible with mod_status or could I aggregate ...
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Free alternatives to Tivoli Enterprise Console
I'm looking for a free solution that allows operators to keep an eye on systems and applications. It should digest log files from different sources and allow for alerts to be triggered in certain ...
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Colour tail of Apache logs
Monitoring apache logs with tail –f tends gets very frustrating for the eyes after a while. Are there any tool/options to colorize the log outputs? Maybe signal FATAL with red, etc...
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Logging haproxy check results / problems
how can I enable logging of haproxy check results (or failures only)? I've seen some mailing list posts suggesting this is possible:
Server LDAPSFarm/LDAPS1 is DOWN, reason: Socket error, check ...
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Wanted process monitor WITH logging to file (Win)
I was very surprised when to not find process monitor, which could be able to doing their work, and save some dumps with the specified periodicity. Does anyone know such like this?
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How to monitor your “entire” website?
I've perused through the forums here and was wondering what the best practice was in terms of monitoring the status of your "entire" website? (not just the homepage) In terms of priority, if your ...
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Website Use Monitoring for 3 People
I work in an IT startup with 2 partners, and I'm the programmer/IT guy -- in other words, the work horse. To make a long story short, I'm doing most of the work right now, while they spend all day on ...
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Monitor the shell activity of a user on your Unix system?
Trust, but verify.
Let's say I want to hire someone a sysadmin, and give them root access to my Unix system.
I want to disable X windows for them, only allow shell usage (through SSH, maybe), so that ...
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Windows Server Login Alert Tools
I am concerned that one of our servers is being abused for a few various reasons.
Is there a tool that can send an email when ever a user logons onto the server?
I would like to get an email with as ...
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Monitor multiple Linux log files in real time
I'm debugging a Linux application that allows remote jobs to be submitted, logging the output from each job in a new file. The log file paths conform to:
/joblogs/job_*/JOB.LOG
where the wild card ...
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Find heaviest users by CPU usage in AIX
Is there a way to find the top users according to CPU usage in AIX? I would like to get history if possible, but I am open to installing some extra logging facilities.
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Apache - Getting Alerts on Traffic/Spiders Exceeding a Threshold
What tools can I use to monitor my Apache Log files and create alerts based on traffic. I need to:
Get an alert when a spider that is outside of a defined list exceeds a set number of requests in ...
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Log monitoring toolsets for Unix?
What are some good tools for monitoring logs on a system? I am currently using logsentry, which basically just runs grep on logs, ignores regexps I tell it to ignore, and mails me everything else, but ...
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Complete stack traces from Hyperic
I've setup Hyperic to run on our CI-machine, and every once in a while it reacts to some random stack trace and sends of an alert. So far so good, we've caught a lot of intermittent bugs that way.
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Linux file system monitoring software
I am looking for some software to monitor local file systems on some Linux servers. It can be commercial or FOSS as cost is not an issue. The systems are running ubuntu Server 8.04 x86. I would like ...
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Graphing/Reporting PHP Errors
Whats the best way to get reports on php errors?
To give a bit of background, have some legacy PHP applications/websites that generate various errors/warnings etc, currently going to apache log.
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Is it possible to log every access to disk/directory?
I need some script which will log (just output to the console or file) every access to some disk or directory (either works for me). I would also like to know what exactly (which subdirectory or file) ...
