Cheshire Cat Computing

Hi,
First off I would like to thank Mr Shipway for an awesome tool! I have just downloaded the event log agent and am using it with nagios. So far it is working great. However, I don't quite understand the concept of prioritizing the filters and I'm hoping that somesome can shed some light or provide a theoretical example of prioritizing?
Thanks,
Dan

When a messages comes in, the agent works down the filter list until it finds the first match. This defines which alert (if any) is to be sent to the Nagios NSCA server. Therefore, the priority is important as you use it to exclude or select items from subsequent filters.

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Steve Shipway
UNIX Systems, ITSS, University of Auckland, NZ
Woe unto them that rise up early in the morning... -- Isaiah 5:11

I would like to share an article that i read describing the Advanced Event Filtering for Windows Log Events. It might be of some use to you. Check it out at

Useful post -- there are a lotof issues with getting proper filtering of Eventlog data.

The biggest issue with the Nagios agent at the moment, though, is supporting UTF8 encaded characters as it is currently ASCII-only.

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Steve Shipway
UNIX Systems, ITSS, University of Auckland, NZ
Woe unto them that rise up early in the morning... -- Isaiah 5:11