Hi,

Anyone know if is possible redirect the output of the MSGPATH to
Linux/syslog ?

I already think try use a pipe file + logger command... but , isn't
elegant and I not sure if will work properly.

Regards
Cesar

On Tue, Nov 23, 2010 at 11:01 PM, Cesar Inacio Martins <
cesar_inacio_martins (AT) yahoo (DOT) com.br> wrote:

Hello Cesar.
I wouldn't suggest that solution. It's not clear to me what (and when) will
happen if the logger process gets killed. All pipes will buffer (and I've
seen amazing buffer capabilities....) but we never know how long... And you
could end up with the engine trying to write to a "full" fifo. It could
cause problems in the engine, or at best you could loose messages.

So, I would suggest another approach... I think that what's relevant is the
events. So you could alter the ALARMPROGRAM script and enable it to use
logger.
In fact I've done it for a customer. The altered script has the ability to
send emails, send SMS, and write to the syslog using logger.

The only problem I see is that unfortunately there are still important
events that don't call the ALARMPROGRAM... This is a real shame, but there
are solutions.
One I've implemented is a relatively complex script that keeps an eye on the
message log. For each message it reads it searches for it in a config file
where regular expressions are associated with actions. These actions can be
functions defined in yet another script, or simply a call to the
alarmprogram with extended event codes.
You could also turn on ALARM_ALL_EVENTS (possibly misspelled) ONCONFIG
option.
Finally there is a nice trick that can be done with sysmaster:sysonlinelog
but I would need to elaborate more on this carefully. But basically you
could write a task for the DB scheduler that keeps track of the last
position it checked, and that keeps "trailing" the new lines in onlinelog
using the SQL interface.

If you're interested in any of this ideas I can provide more help...

Regards.

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Fernando Nunes
Portugal

http://informix-technology.blogspot.com
My email works... but I don't check it frequently...

Hi Fernando,

Thanks for your suggestion.
I'm trying doing something more simple, something like, set and forget,
just like Informix is...
and easy to implement with any version of informix.

As far I tested the logger command , they is very flexible..
so , at first I think try this approach, please tell me your opinion:

- write a script what should keep running 24x7
- the script is started by any event in alarmprogram + "at" (the
command) or by crontab (each 5 minute), and run in background, maybe
with nohup
- the script should be smarter to detect if him self is already running
or not ... if yes , just do nothing..
- the basic command of the script will be:
tail -f online.log | logger -t ifx [...other parameters...]

Here I'm still need check how send this syslog to a remote syslog
server.. but this is other problem



On 11/23/2010 09:55 PM, Fernando Nunes wrote:

I have more or less what you want...
My "relatively complex script" can be setup for what you want. The
configuration file must be setup with a pattern that matches every thing,
and you can configure it to call a function that calls the logger.

The main script already accepts arguments that allows it torun as a Daemon
or as a "worker".
The deamon checks all instances in the machine and launches a worker for all
of them. The "workers" keep a tail -f on the file.

There is one problem though... This script is written to use another one
that I use to setup the environment. This script has some utility functions
that can generate a list (numbers) of environments... And the workers are
launched with a specific environment number. This part of the script would
have to be chenged/tailored to your needs, but it should be trivial...
If you want to take a look at it I can try to pre-configure it for you.

I've used the scripts for some time, but I had a problem in the tail of
Tru64 (the system used by the customer at the time).

Regards.


On Wed, Nov 24, 2010 at 12:31 AM, Cesar Inacio Martins <
cesar_inacio_martins (AT) yahoo (DOT) com.br> wrote:


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Portugal

http://informix-technology.blogspot.com
My email works... but I don't check it frequently...