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Re: [Bigsister-general] Using the logfile monitor


On Tue, 2005-08-30 at 21:21 +0200, Peter Varlien wrote:
> I have a couple of situations where the originating host from syslogd's  
> (and thus the syslog monitor's) point of view isn't the system I want to  
> report certain events on.

I'm curious. Wouldn't in your case the

  node nameinsyslog=nameinbigsister

syntax for telling Big Sister how it should translate single host names
in the log be sufficient?

> In Andrew's case, though, the correct solution is probably to configure  
> the base logfile monitor to understand which column in the webserver  
> logfile is the hostname. Probably this means creating a "weblog" subclass  
> to logfile, like the syslog and eventlog subclasses that already exist.  
> Assuming he can't persuade his webserver to write a logfile in syslog  
> format.

Yes, you are right. I did not pay attention that he was not talking
about syslog, but about the generic "logfile" monitor - which of course
does not know which part of a log line corresponds with a host name.

Best regards,
Tom
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