Log File Check
This Check scans the specified log file alerting where the entered text is discovered.
Where a Check is added or edited the new settings are downloaded to the Agent the next time it communicates back to the Dashboard and applied when the Check runs after that.
Dashboard Check configuration
Add
- Select the workstation in the North-pane of the Dashboard
- Go to the Checks tab
- Add Check
- Choose Add DSC > Log File Check
- Configure the Check
- Log Name : either enter the name and path of the log file to query, for example
/usr/log/user.log
, or select the required log from the drop-down - Contains : the test to search for in the specified log file
- OK to save and apply
Edit
- Select the workstation in the North-pane of the Dashboard
- Go to the Checks tab
- Select the target Log File Check
- From the Check drop-down
- Edit Check (also available from the Check's right-click menu)
- Configure the Log Name and Contains
- OK to save and apply
Delete
- Select the workstation in the North-pane of the Dashboard
- Go to the Checks tab
- Select the target Log File Check
- From the Check drop-down
- Delete Check (also available from the Check's right-click menu)
- Enter the password you have logged into the Dashboard under to confirm removal
- OK to delete