Re: Good logging and real-time alert tools ?
Doug Hughes (Doug.Hughes@Eng.Auburn.EDU)
Thu, 16 Nov 1995 08:16:21 -0600
>Hi,
>
> Can someone give me some pointers to any good logging software and/or
>real-time alert generation software (beeper, e-mail, etc.).
>
>Steve
>
Many people like and use swatch which is as configurable as you can get. I
wrote something in Tcl/Tk that I call tklogger. It has two windows, one
for low priority events and one for high priority events. You define
the colors of events that you want to see in a configuration script. They
can be either based on the file that the data is coming from (multiple
log files - syslog style) or based on regular expression matches. Anything
matching *red* will display in the high priority window and immediately
de-iconify and bring the window to the front when such an event occurs.
It would be easy to add in paging, or mail into this as well if you wanted.
It also has user configurable scrollback, pause/continue, save/load and
search through scrollback capability.
Both should be available at the coast archive. My write up on tklogger
is available at http://www.eng.auburn.edu/users/doug/second.html
swatch, I'm pretty sure, is written in Perl and is probably more configurable
than mine, so you should check it out. I wanted something GUI based though,
which is why I wrote tklogger. I have not evaluated swatch.
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