description = "A short unique descriptor for this search. It will appear in the output of the plugin and is used to separare the different services."
}
"--logfile" = {
value = "$logfiles_logfile$"
description = "This is the name of the log file you want to scan."
}
"--rotation" = {
value = "$logfiles_rotation$"
description = "This is the method how log files are rotated. One of the predefined methods or a regular expression, which helps identify the rotated archives. If this key is missing, check_logfiles assumes that the log file will be simply overwritten instead of rotated."
}
"--criticalpattern" = {
value = "$logfiles_critical_pattern$"
description = "A regular expression which will trigger a critical error."
}
"--warningpattern" = {
value = "$logfiles_warning_pattern$"
description = "A regular expression which will trigger a warning error."
}
"--criticalexception" = {
value = "$logfiles_critical_exception$"
description = "A regular expression, the exceptions which are not counted as critical errors."
}
"--warningexception" = {
value = "$logfiles_warning_exception$"
description = "A regular expression, the exceptions which are not counted as warning errors."
}
"--okpattern" = {
value = "$logfiles_ok_pattern$"
description = "A regular expression which resets the error counters."
}
"--noprotocol" = {
set_if = "$logfiles_no_protocol$"
description = "Normally all the matched lines are written into a protocol file with this file’s name appearing in the plugin’s output. This option switches this off."
}
"--syslogserver" = {
set_if = "$logfiles_syslog_server$"
description = "With this option you limit the pattern matching to lines originating from the host check_logfiles is running on."
}
"--syslogclient" = {
value = "$logfiles_syslog_client$"
description = "With this option you limit the pattern matching to lines originating from the host named in this option."
}
"--sticky" = {
value = "$logfiles_sticky$"
description = "Errors are propagated through successive runs."
}
"--unstick" = {
set_if = "$logfiles_unstick$"
description = "Resets sticky errors."
}
"--config" = {
value = "$logfiles_config$"
description = "The name of a configuration file."
}
"--configdir" = {
value = "$logfiles_configdir$"
description = "The name of a configuration directory. Configfiles ending in .cfg or .conf are (recursively) imported."
}
"--searches" = {
value = "$logfiles_searches$"
description = "A list of tags of those searches which are to be run. Using this parameter, not all searches listed in the config file are run, but only those selected."
}
"--selectedsearches" = {
value = "$logfiles_selectedsearches$"
description = "A list of tags of those searches which are to be run. Using this parameter, not all searches listed in the config file are run, but only those selected."
}
"--report" = {
value = "$logfiles_report$"
description = "This option turns on multiline output (Default: off). The setting html generates a table which display the last hits in the service details view. Possible values are: short, long, html or off"
}
"--maxlength" = {
value = "$logfiles_max_length$"
description = "With this parameter long lines are truncated (Default: off). Some programs (e.g. TrueScan) generate entries in the eventlog of such a length, that the output of the plugin becomes longer than 1024 characters. NSClient++ discards these."
description = "With this parameter messages in the eventlog are classified by the type WARNING/ERROR (Default: off). Replaces or complements warning/criticalpattern."
}
"--rununique" = {
set_if = "$logfiles_run_unique$"
description = "This parameter prevents check_logfiles from starting when there’s already another instance using the same config file. (exits with UNKNOWN)"
}
"--timeout" = {
value = "$logfiles_timeout$"
description = "This parameter causes an abort of a running search after a defined number of seconds. It is an aborted in a controlled manner, so that the lines which have been read so far, are used for the computation of the final result."
}
"--warning" = {
value = "$logfiles_warning$"
description = "Complex handler-scripts can be provided with a warning-parameter this way. Inside the scripts the value is accessible as the macro CL_WARNING."
}
"--critical" = {
value = "$logfiles_critical$"
description = "Complex handler-scripts can be provided with a critical-parameter this way. Inside the scripts the value is accessible as the macro CL_CRITICAL."
