[osiris] Monitoring of log files

Mark Weishaar mark.weishaar at nisc.coop
Thu Mar 13 14:56:16 EDT 2008


Dave,
Thanks for the help - that did the trick.

Mark 

-----Original Message-----

Mark Weishaar wrote:
> For compliance reasons, we need to monitor the syslog files on our 
> central syslog server to make sure that they are not modified.
> 
> It has been suggested to us that we only monitor the log files that 
> have been rotated (which we are doing along with compression on a 
> daily basis).  The problem I am having is that I do not want to be 
> notified when a "new" log file is rotated - I only want to know if one

> of the logs that has been rotated is changed/modified.
> 
> Is this a plausible scenario using Osiris?

You can accomplish this through a filter.

In the CLI you can edit the filters using the 'edit-filters' command.

You then create a regex that matches the line you do not want to be
notified for.  Example:

\[new\]\[\/var\/log\/.*\.log\]

-dave


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