[mrtg] Re: threshold syslog

[Barry Irwin]

> On Wed 2000-08-09 (18:52), Barry Irwin wrote:
> > 
> > On Wed 2000-08-09 (10:35), slaporte at medis.ca wrote:
> > > I need to send a syslog message to a remote computer on my network when a
> > > percentage of bandwith is in use. Has anybody found a way to do this with the
> > > threshold commands. I have MRTG-2.8.12 on a linux REdhat 6.0 box.
> > 
> > my suggestion would be to write a C wrapper program which you have mrtg call
> > when thresholds are reached.  look at the syslog(3) man page.  Shouldnt be
> > too much trouble to have a simple C program that takes some parameters, and
> > then injects a message into syslog.
> 
 Not sure what this application is called under linux, but on FreeBSD there
 is a util called logger(1) which can be used in shell scripts to log
 information via syslog.  So you could have a shell script to process the
 information received form the threshold, adn then use logger to log to
 syslog.

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