Hi Sam,

I’ve got Syslog alerting working. Make sure you have your mailing settings correct, we did this in the config.php.

As for rules we followed some of the ones on the Observium documentation, but have also defined some of our own. I really like the simplicity of how you can define new rules, just look for things that commonly occur on an event and enclose them in /s.

Are your rules working? Does anything show up in /syslog_alerts/? If there’s items in there then it’s working as expected and it’s your mail set-up which is the problem.

Regards,

Alex.

From: observium [mailto:observium-bounces@observium.org] On Behalf Of Kirk Sam (RXW) IT Network Engineer
Sent: 03 November 2016 10:09
To: 'observium@observium.org' <observium@observium.org>
Subject: [Observium] Syslog Rules

Hi All,

Has anyone used the syslog rules/alerts yet?  I’ve tried setting up some simple rules to alert if there are particular messages in the syslog but haven’t managed to get any to trigger.

I’ve tried making the rules even simpler, for example setting the rule to /port/ (which occurs in the syslog often) and haven’t had it trigger either.  If I browse to the syslog and use the message search function it does return results.

The syslog has been configured and in use for some time – one of my colleagues set it up and followed the syslog integration guide.  Is there any further configuration needed for the syslog rules to enable them or something?

Many thanks for your help.

Regards,

Sam