check_in_logfiles.py

Hi, Hope you don't mind. I modified the code a bit. Seemed that when everything was OK, Nagios failed display data. #!/usr/bin/env python # Check_log_files.py # Author: Imran Ahmed # Description: Nagios plugin that searches log files for a patterns loaded from a pattern file. # Usage check_in_logfiles.py : # First argument PATTERNFILE is a text file containing lines of the form: # SEVERITY:PATTERN # where *SEVERITY* is one of `IGNORE`, `WARNING`, `CRITICAL` and *PATTERN* is a # regular expression. # Second (and later) argument LOGFILE is the path to one (or more) log files. # if a line is found that matches a *PATTERN* with *SEVERITY* `CRITICAL`, # exit with CRITICAL status # if a line is found that matches a *PATTERN* with *SEVERITY* `WARNING`, # exit with WARNING status import sys, re def popLists(file): with open(file, 'r') as myPatFile: lines = myPatFile.readlines() critical = [] warning = [] ok = [] for line in lines: line = line.strip() words = line.split(":") if (words[0] =='CRITICAL'): critical.append(words[1]) elif (words[0] =='WARNING'): warning.append(words[1]) elif (words[0] =='OK'): ok.append(words[1]) else: print "Everything is cool!" return critical, warning, ok def main(): argc = len(sys.argv) if argc main()