Basically its like i said. In the example that you mentioned you would send something along the following lines:

hostname, Oct 13 2003, 8:00:00, service is down, Error, Oct 13 2003, 12:00:00
The first date and time being the downtime, the second being the uptime.

Its all really static, i wish the setup on the Unix server was more capable. But you email that line(it can take multiple lines now, after i whined to the Unix guy) to the server. And once it is recieved it is saved to a file specific to that host name, in identical format. Periodically, on the Unix server, scripts are run to create reports on the downtime of each server, and the reason it was down(just the error).

The Unix system does nothing beyond that, it does not correlate downtimes and uptimes beyond what i send it. I've fought to get this moved to the server to no avail.

In reply to Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: comma delimited, syslog parsing by jeff061
in thread comma delimited, syslog parsing by jeff061

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