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by Goad
Mon Feb 13, 2012 2:38 am
Forum: Configuration, Maintenance, Troubleshooting
Topic: Watching for Backup Log File Entries
Replies: 3
Views: 9554

I am looking to have hostmon send out an alert when the backup starts and finishes. I think backup process cannot be finished unless it was started so may be you need to check only for one string? Then you may setup Text Log test method without checking for time. Just check for Exit Start string, H...
by Goad
Wed Feb 08, 2012 1:45 am
Forum: Configuration, Maintenance, Troubleshooting
Topic: Watching for Backup Log File Entries
Replies: 3
Views: 9554

Watching for Backup Log File Entries

I need a little help as my creativity is lacking to accomplish this task... The Basics: This is a application that runs its own proprietary nightly task to back up its database (Interbase). It logs to a single file. The file name is not time/date stamped or rotating, but the log entries are timestam...
by Goad
Thu Jul 28, 2011 12:34 am
Forum: Configuration, Maintenance, Troubleshooting
Topic: Batch Process Log File Monitoring
Replies: 3
Views: 11125

Thank you for the response. The problem is that it does not post any "bad" records. It just hangs and stops working without warning and without posting any records at all. as stated in my previous post, I need it to check for 'good #2' record within X amount of minutes after 'good #1' reco...
by Goad
Wed Jul 27, 2011 12:37 am
Forum: Configuration, Maintenance, Troubleshooting
Topic: Batch Process Log File Monitoring
Replies: 3
Views: 11125

Batch Process Log File Monitoring

I am trying to monitor a batch process that posts to a log file. This batch job has many sequences to it and sometimes these sequences hang without warning or posting errors to the log file. So what I want to do is do some kind of timer between sequence steps. The log file does post lines of beginni...