RE: General log to trap utility?

>I have several dozen applications, mix of programming language, that i
>want to trigger traps on certain events.  Each of these apps can write
>to syslog.  I was thinking of writing a tool that tailed the
>/var/log/messages file and grepped for pattern and on matching, called
>snmptrap.  I might start w/a bash script, but rewrite it in c with
>pcre and net-snmp libs because it should be fairly efficient.  Has
>anyone considered this before, is there already a tool for this, or
>maybe there is a better way?  Thanks.

Why not take a look at SEC (Simple Event Correlator http://simple-evcorr.sourceforge.net/ ).
While this doesn't directly send traps (use your favorite trap sender from net-snmp or elsewhere), it does handle file-reading, event correlation, regex, etc.

Al



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