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Syslog Critical Alert Rule

Microsoft.Solaris.10.LogFile.Syslog.Critical.Alert (Rule)

Alert rule for syslog critical messages in syslog.

Knowledge Base article:

Summary

A syslog critical event was detected in the system log files. Syslogd logs internal events related to the syslog process.

Causes

A failure may happen due to several reasons. Information about the failure is available in the associated output data item, events and alerts.

Resolutions

The description of the alert and/or the output data item contains information on the problem encountered. Please check the associated event details and any other events that happened around the time of this failure to diagnose the problem.

Element properties:

TargetMicrosoft.Solaris.10.Computer
CategoryEventCollection
EnabledTrue
Alert GenerateTrue
Alert SeverityError
Alert PriorityNormal
RemotableTrue
Alert Message
Syslog Critical Alert detected
{0}

Member Modules:

ID Module Type TypeId RunAs 
EventDS DataSource Microsoft.Unix.SCXLog.Datasource Default
GenerateAlert WriteAction System.Health.GenerateAlert Default

Source Code:

<Rule ID="Microsoft.Solaris.10.LogFile.Syslog.Critical.Alert" Target="Microsoft.Solaris.10.Computer" Enabled="true" Remotable="true">

  <Category>EventCollection</Category>

  <DataSources>

    <DataSource ID="EventDS" TypeID="Unix!Microsoft.Unix.SCXLog.Datasource">

      <Host>$Target/Property[Type="Unix!Microsoft.Unix.Computer"]/PrincipalName$</Host>

      <LogFile>/var/adm/messages</LogFile>

      <RegExpFilter>.*[Ss]yslog\.([Cc]rit|[Ee]merg|[Aa]lert).*</RegExpFilter>

    </DataSource>

  </DataSources>

  <WriteActions>

    <WriteAction ID="GenerateAlert" TypeID="SystemHealth!System.Health.GenerateAlert">

      <Priority>1</Priority>

      <Severity>2</Severity>

      <AlertMessageId>$MPElement[Name="Microsoft.Solaris.10.LogFile.Syslog.Critical.AlertMessage"]$</AlertMessageId>

      <AlertParameters>

        <AlertParameter1>$Data/EventDescription$</AlertParameter1>

      </AlertParameters>

      <Suppression>

        <SuppressionValue/>

      </Suppression>

    </WriteAction>

  </WriteActions>

</Rule>